(Right) A salute from an RN Wessex helicopter during a short trip in Holes Bay. photograph (right) by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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the command of Coxswain Arthur Curnow and had reached Berry Head by 1500. It was found that an 11-year-old boy had slipped 50ft down a 180ft cliff and, with head and arm injuries, was trapped on a ledge. Ambulance men were with him but, as... - View image in PDF
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BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guernsey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Galway Bay's relief lifeboat tows Final Quest to safe harbour. - View image in PDF
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Left: Launching the rigid inflatable lifeboat from the beach at Ptettenburg Bay. - View image in PDF
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JULY 31ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
A man bathing in Coldingham Bay had got into difficulties, but was drowned before help could reach him. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d..
(from page 83) provided for inshore lifeboats or for conventional lifeboats, with the exception of 70' boats, but that the subject should be kept under review. This duty is now undertaken by the Medical and Survival Committee which...
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Shoreline Service I read with interest the report on page 10 of the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT, concerning the beaching of the Prince Ivanhoe at Horton, off the Gower, South Wales. I was on holiday and happened...
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WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It...
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FEBRUARY 1ST - 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported an SOS from a vessel which was sinking about two miles north-west of the Sunk Lightvessel.
The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was...