The Royal National Life-Boat Institution's drama group, 'The Grosvenor Circle', staged their third production, 'Make it Murder', by Jack Last, at the Abbey Community Association Theatre on 27th and 28th March, 1969. In...
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Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....
JULY 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire about five miles south-west of Shoreham. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 11.25 P.M. the motor...
Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
ON SERVICE FOR THIRTEEN HOURS At 5.18 a.m. on the 26th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Ros Beara was asking for immediate assistance as something had fouled her propeller and she...
On the 20th October, the barque Vermont, of Halifax, parted from her anchors and van ashore, in a heavy gale from W.N.W., on Burnett's wharf shoal, near Fleetwood. The Institution's life-boat, stationed at that place, was immediately...
Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 3 A.M. on the 20th February. The Lifeboat was launched, and proceeded to the barqne Eboe, of Liverpool, bound from that port for Africa with a general cargo; she had 6 feet of water in her hold,...
The Sisters' Memorial life-boat on this station was called out on service on the 4th November, the Dutch brigantine Catharina driving ashore and becoming a total wreck in Llandudno Bay on that day in a strong gale from the N.N.W. and a...
Dover, Kent - At 3.18 a.m. on 30th July, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a yacht with a broken mast was almost ashore in Fan bay, about three miles east of Dover. The life-boat Faithful Forester slipped her moorings at 3.29 in a strong...
Disaster to the Rye Life-boat.
The Whole Crew Drowned.
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant...