Fowey, Cornwall.—While the motor life-boat C.D.E.C. was out to the help of the woman who had fallen from Gribben Head on the 7th of August, a wireless message was received at her station from the Polruan coastguard at 5.50 that some boys had...
As you read this, an RNLI pager will probably be going off somewhere. Heads will turn to the ear-piercing beeps, adrenaline will pump and someone will be leaving in a hurry.
But what about the...
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Knockdown . . .
. . . DURING A WINTER OF UNUSUAL FEROCITY IN THE EARLY HOURS of Christmas Eve 1977 Kilmore lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Lad Murphy, and St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft" Oakley 'Frank Pen/old...
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Swanage, Dorset - At 4.38 p.m. on 26th October, 1968, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy with five people on board had capsized in the Peveril Ledge tide race. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 4.47. The tide was ebbing...
In looking over the list of wrecks, no one can fail to be struck at the prominent position occupied by the officers and men of the Coast-Guard Service on all such occasions.
The records of the National Shipwreck Insti-...
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Dover, Kent. At 11.30 on the night of the 19th of November, 1959, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that a lighter had broken adrift from the Dutch tug Titan. At 11.59 the life- boat Southern Africa left her moorings in a...
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 10.20 p.m.
on 6th September, 1966, news was received that a patient on the Isle of Sanday needed medical attention. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her moorings at 10.45 in a gale...
THE Life-boat Saturday workers through- out the country, after reviewing the year's campaign thus far conducted, may well congratulate themselves on the very satisfactory results they have secured.
Taking all things...
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On the even- ing of the 15th December the steam trawler Thanet, of Hull, was seen to run aground on the Inner Binks sands.
She carried a crew of nine, and was returning home from the fishing grounds. The motor life-boat...
OCT. 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A message had been received that twenty-six seamen from a French ship which had been sunk by enemy action were on board the Inner Dowsing Lightship. The life-boat was launched to bring...