Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was ashore at Cleats Point two hundred yards off shore.
The life-boat City of Glasgow II put...
3rd Septem- ber. A fire on Foulness Island was mistaken for flares of distress at sea.— Rewards, £11 19s..
Dover, Kent.—On the 25th October, 1939, the motor life-boat Sir William Hillary was launched at 4.50 P.M. at the request of the chief of staff of H.M.
Naval Base at Dover. A strong E.N.E.
wind was blowing,...
The R.N.L.I. has accepted the offer of honorary membership of the British Helicopter Advisory Board at Redhill, Surrey..
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Bideford Shipyard 1973 • • • Bllnk End Bideford LimitedDevon England Telephone Bideford (02372) 5508 9 Telegraphic address : BIDSHIP DEVON 72 Lifeboat built at Bideford.
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Coxswain Peter Race and Helen Pickett at Teesmoirth lifeboat station's open day, 11 August. - View image in PDF
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The lifeboat station (inset) is on the quay at the bottom right hand corner of the caravan site.. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At one in the afternoon the coastguard reported two cobles in difficulties a mile and a half to the south-east and unable to make the harbour. A north-east wind was blowing, with a...
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calen- dar for next year. It is also issuing, for the first time, a Life-boat Christmas card, and we hope that readers of The Lifeboat will buy this calendar for their...
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Two fishing cobles put to sea from Filey at 4 A.M. on the 15th November, but became separated in the darkness. One of them returned at 9.30 A.M. and re- ported that the other, the Heather, carrying a crew of three, had not been seen for some...