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More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence
Pilgrim
During a whole W.S.W. gale and rough sea on the 16th June, the fishing-boat J'ili/rim, of liuckhaven, was observed about three miles oft" North Sunderland Harbour showing signals of distress. At 3.45 P.M. the -Life-boat Thomas...
October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
C.H.S.
LlTTLEHAMPTON. At 1.50 A.M. OU the llth January, the Life-boat James, Mercer and Elizabeth was launched, signals of distress having been shown close to the West Pier, in a moderate S.W. gale and a heavy sea. It was found that the brigantine...
Four Admiralty Trawlers
DECEMBER 8TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At 5.15 in the evening the coastguard at Usan reported that four Admiralty trawlers were being bombed by enemy aeroplanes two miles to the S.E., and the motor life-boat The Good Hope put out...
Coastal Life
coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...
Category: Articles
Four Survivors from a D.U.K.W. Which Overturned In Rough Seas Off Blackpool on 19th December, 1966
Four survivors from a D.U.K.W. which overturned in rough seas off Blackpool on 19th December, 1966. One of the men was drowned as he was being rescued.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Foreword
AN ADDRESS BY SIR GODFREY BARING, BT.
CHAIRMAN OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INSTITUTION ON 10th. JULY, 1941..
Category: Articles
Mr Fenwick Aitken's Model of a 37-Foot Oakley Made to One-Quarter Scale
Mr. Fenwick Aitken's model of a 37-foot Oakley made to one-quarter scale.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Dinghies (6)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...