French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.40 Ott the evening of the 19th of April, 1957^ the coastguard telephoned to say ft German tanker had reported a small vessel drifting near the East Shoebury buoy. At 8.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 11.5 on the night of the 1st of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that flares had been seen seven miles to the south- ward, and at 11.50 the life-boatMichael Stephens put out in a calm sea and light breeze....
Four cobles of Spittal and Berwick went out during the forenoon on the 6th April to recover their gear, which they had been obliged to abandon three days previously owing to heavy winds. They proceeded to Goswick Bay, and had hardly...
In response to a telephone message from Thorpeness on the 17th September the No. 1 Life-boat City of Winchester was launched, great difficulty being experienced in getting the boat afloat owing to the heavy sea running and the bad state of...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1960, the coastguard asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a doctor to a sick woman on Bardsey Island. The life- boat...
A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD boy, Arnold Togneri, has been awarded an inscribed wristwatch for the rescue of a girl off Dunbar, East Lothian, on the afternoon of nth April, 1965.
Arnold Togneri and two other boys, John and James...
Category: Awards
Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...
Category: Services