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Salcombe, Devon. At 2.50 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy was missing at Burgh Island and that it was thought he had fa!!en over a cliff. A request was made for the help...
The S.S. Skane (1)
Whilst seven men were engaged, on the 23rd December, on board the s.s. Skane, of Helsingborg, endeavouring to save her, a very heavy sea got up and, as they were in consider- able danger, it was necessary to launch ( the No. 1 Life-boat...
A Sailing Dinghy
Saved boat and three SHOREHAM HARBOUR DLA was informed by HM Coastguard at 1405 on Wednesday July 20, 1977, that a 14' sailing dinghy was half submerged just west of the harbour entrance; one of her crew of three could be seen in the...
The Institution and the Coronation
Spithead Review FOUH life-boats took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen at Spithead on the 15th of June, 1953. Two of the life-boats were the new Campbeltown and Flamborough boats, City of Glas- gow II and...
Category: Articles
The Late Coxswain William Henry Baker. Coxswain 1904 to 1923
The Late Coxswain William Henry Baker Coxswain 1904 To 1923. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
University Marine Ltd
Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inrlatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
Category: Advertisement
Lona M
Motorboat aground ON THE EVENING of Saturday April 24, 1982, the small fishing boat Lona M ran aground on the rocks of North Wamses Island, about four miles east of North Sunderland lifeboat station. Mr Hawkey, warden for the Fame Islands...
St Fergus
The Life-boat Cotton Sheppard, stationed here, was also launched the same day to the aid of the schooner St. Fergus, of Aberystwith, which had shown signals of distress on account of her being in very shallow water and in danger of striking...
Halcyon (1)
SEPT. 27TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 6.45 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind.
At 7.5 A.M. the motor...
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...
Category: Obituaries