At 7. p.m. on loth June, 1966, a yacht was reported aground to the west of the pier. There was a light north easterly wind with a slight sea and thick fog. It was one hour after low water. The no. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King...
MAY 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported a small open pulling boat about two and a half miles from the look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 1.30 P.M. A...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Scarborough -- North Division The boathouse for Scarborough's Mersey and D class is right on the town's seafront, tucked into the corner of the beach at South Bay...
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Cromer, Norfolk.—At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the coastguard reported that the skipper of the trawler John Willment had found one of his crew in a state of collapse with no apparent heart-beat or pulse.
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WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, during a dense fog, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Dawlish, of London, that she was ashore at North Bishop, At one o'...
The No. 2 Life-boat John Fielden performed a useful service on the 1st May, in escort- ing six of the fishing cobles, one at a time, into safety. In the early morning when the boats put to sea the weather was fine with a slight swell, but...
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ON 27TH OCTOBER, 1927, an Italian seaman spent the night clutching the rigging of the stricken 6,oooton s.s. habo, an Italian merchantman, which had foundered on the Scilly Rocks at the Isles of Scilly. The next morning he was snatched to...
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