The fishing yawl Lizzie and Annie, oi Arbroath, was returning to port from the fishing grounds about midday on the 7th October, when owing to the strong S.E. wind and heavy sea it was realized that both the boat and her crew would be in...
Ex-lifeboats from all over the UK got together for the Fowey lifeboat rally in June Photo: Nicholas Leach. - View image in PDF
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Relief Brede: Champagne breaks over the bow of the 33ft Brede relief lifeboat named RNLB Merchant Navy to mark the generous support given to the lifeboat service over many years by merchant seamen. The ceremony took place in St Katharine... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 6TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
A tank landing craft had gone ashore, but the water was too shallow for the lifeboat to get near. Eventually the crew of the landing craft were able to walk ashore.- Rewards, £17...
Dover, Kent.—At 9.17 on the morn- ing of the 8th of July, 1951, during a dense fog, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that the train ferry, S.S. Hampton Ferry, of Dover, had collided with the breakwater. At 9.20 the life-boat Southern...
The Ann Maria life-boat at Winter- ton saved 2 men from the schooner Phoebe, of Goole, which had stranded on Wintertou Ness Point.
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the night of the 16th February the 20,000-ton Union Castle liner Winchester Castle, bound from Port Natal for Southampton, ran aground two hundred yards south of Blacknor Fort. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
On the 27th February, at 1.15 P.M., the Albert Edward Life-boat put off to the assistance of the steamer Blonde, of Whitehaven, bound from Goole for London with a cargo of coal and oil, and carrying a crew of ten men, which had stranded on...
Behind the life-boat is " Tail's Tower ". - View image in PDF
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On the night of the 30th December, signals of distress were seen burning from a vessel off this place.
The wind was blowing fresh from the East, and a heavy sea running. The Parsee life- boat put off and assisted, after ten...