Margate, Kent - At 7.32 p.m. on 22nd August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard in the vicinity of Longnose buoy. At 7.58 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched...
Humane Society awards for crew members Hunstanton - East Division Two members of Hunstanton's lifeboat crew have received Royal Humane Society awards for rescuing a windsurfer - with the station's launching tractor.
Rescue of a French Crew at Barry Dock.
ON the morning of 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was on her way from Brest to Swansea with a cargo of onions. A strong gale from the W.N.W. was blowing, with...
Category: Services
Weston-super-Mare: On Wednesday July 25, 1984, the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Weston Centenary, was on stand-by for the town's air day. She was waiting to carry out a helicopter lift demonstration when a crew...
Andrew Holland, a 13-year-old Sea Scout from Inverkeithing, Fife, undertook a sponsored 28-day camp out last summer to raise funds for his Scout group and the Institution. Andrew had the company of his brother David who camped with him for... - View image in PDF
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—2nd August, 1938. Two men who had gone fishing did not return when expected. A search was made, but in the meantime they came ashore.—Rewards, £14 14s..
Three snatched from wave-swept rock using boarding boat The Director of the RNLI has written to Alderney lifeboat station to congratulate coxswain Stephen Shaw and his crew on the excellent teamwork shown during a service by the...
Supporters of RNLI - Group Tours 1983 14-DAY EASTER CRUISE On Fred. Olsen's "Black Watch". Prices from £530 per person, departing on 31 March, visiting Madeira, Lanzarote, Tenerife and Las Palmas.
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KASTBOURNK: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were...
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...