Coxswain Perrin of Skegness Hands Over Christmas Fare To The Lynn Welllight Vessel. - View image in PDF
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Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 26th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that three people were drifting out to sea off Crindon Dene in a rubber dinghy.
The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil...
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 26th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over a cliff near St. David's Head. The life-boat Civil Service No.
6 was launched at 10.15 in...
Awards to coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...
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NOVEMBER 8TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 9.5 at night the life-boat coxswain heard a ship’s siren continually sounding, in the direction of Straw Island, and then saw distress rockets. A north-westerly breeze was blowing, but the sea was calm. The...
Falmouth, Cornwall. — 27th July, 1939. Two steamers had been in collision in the morning, one an oil tanker which had caught fire. Ten of her crew lost their lives. The other twenty-four had been rescued by another steamer. At 8 P.M. it was...
CAISTEE.—The three-masted schooner W. L. J., of Swansea, bound from Goole for Plymouth with coal, and carrying a crew of ten men, was seen to near the Barber Sand and let go her anchor on the 28th December. As it was feared she would go...
During a whole S. W.
gale on the 6th December information j was received that a vessel coming up the j roads was flying signals for assistance.
The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, Civil Ser- vice No. 1, were...
Out of retirement!Once a lifeboat, always a lifeboat - or at least ready to help when needed. The 52ft Barnett class exlifeboat Ramsey Dyce, formerly stationed at Aberdeen and Lochinver, was supposed to have retiredin!985butreturned briefly...