AT 4.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1956, a ten-feet dinghy in which two boys aged fourteen and fifteen were sailing capsized about half a mile from the shore at Minnis Bay, near Birchington, Kent. A small boy saw the dinghy capsize...
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Fisherman plucked to safety by D class as night falls T Lifeboats he three crew members of Sunderland's D class inshore lifeboat received a framed letter of thanks from David Acland, the RNLI's Chairman following a service in poor...
MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — The Life-boat Heywood was launched at midnight on the 1st June, in a heavy sea and a fresh E. wind, to the assistance of the schooner Eagle, of Portmadoc, which had stranded at Saltfleet. The boat was pulled out...
LANDING A THAMES PILOT Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 30th of November, 1947, the coxswain received a telephone call from the Margate coastguard asking for help in landing a Thames pilot from the Norwegian steamer...
On the 14th June the smack Amity, of Aberyst- with, left Aberdovey for Rochester, while the wind was blowing from the N.W.
When near the Bar the wind suddenly shifted, and the strong ebb tide carried the vessel on to the...
LIFE-SAVING COMPANY RESCUES TWO FROM CLIFFS Padstow, Cornwall. At six o'clock on the evening of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and a woman were cut off by the tide at the foot of high...
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 5.18 p.m.
on 5th February, 1967, a message was received that two red flares had been reported about five miles to the east of the boat station. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 5.30 in...
The Institution has received a gift from two ladies in Toronto, Canada, who wrote that they remembered seeing the Walton-on-the-Naze liferboat going out on service in the spring of 1889..
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AUGUST 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.38 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a pilot at Sea View had reported a boat being blown off shore in the direction of Horse Sand Fort.
A south-west gale...
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...