Torbay, Devon. — At 8.10 in the evening of Sunday, the 17th of July, 1949, the coastguard informed the life- boat station that a small boy had fallen down the cliff and a rescue party had found him, but that it was impossible for them to...
Coxswain Benjamin Armitage of Hoylake died on the llth of August, 1960, at the age of 71. He was appoin- ted second coxswain in 1946 and cox- swain in 1948. He retired in 1951. In February 1943 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry...
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HORSES IN WATER The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At ip.m.on i8thOctober, 1964, the coxswain of the life-boat was told that two horses had entered the sea at Southend, The Mumbles, and were swimming away from land. Several local boats tried to...
Compiled by Grahame Farr with the help of members of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society 1—Which life-boat station is farthest from the shore? 2—Where are old life-boat houses now used as (a) a library, and (b] an aquarium? 3—Which...
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As many supporters of the life-boat service will be aware, the R.N.L.I. had a serious deficit in 1967. Expenditure amounted to over £1,921,000 and receipts to just over £1,500,000. This has left a gap of more than £410,000....
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— On the 19th March, as the brig Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool, was coming into the Tyne under charge of a pilot, a sea struck her steering wheel, injuring the man at the helm, and she was driven on the Stones south of the North Pier,...
Only a few of the fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin went out to sea on the 26th March as the sea was rough.
Towards low tide the landing became dangerous and some of them had diffi- culty in coming in. As there were...
Five lifeboats rescue racing dinghies Lifeboats from Hartlepool.Teesmouth and Redcar launched to help 30 dinghies that capsized in gale-force winds on 28 August. The dinghies, competing in a 100-strong race in Hartlepool Bay, were caught out...