JANUARY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 10.25 A.M. the honorary secretary of the station saw a Lysander aeroplane and a Spitfire aeroplane collide. The Lysander crashed at once but the Spitfire flew off, only to crash...
During a S.E.
gale on the 9th November signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Dogger Bank, and with all haste the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was launched to render assistance. When crossing the bar rough...
75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...
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Club safety boat rescues four An incident which took place in the Ribble Estuary on 13 August this year has earned Mr Richard Blackburn the thanks of the chief of operations after he launched the Ribble Cruising Club rescue boat to save the...
On the morning of the 3rd December, the life-boat at this place put off, and rendered assistance to the brig Wild £ose, of Brixham, which was observed to be in a dismantled state off Cromer during stormy weather. When the life-boat...
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
COXSWAIN JOHN Fox and the young crew of the Shoreham life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the rescue of two people from a...
Category: Services
Harvesting the fruit of the sea has been a way of life since the first hunter–gatherers left their footprints in the muds of time – and it’s close to the heart of the RNLI too
The earliest of...
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COVERACK, CORNWALL.—About 6 A.M.
on the 21st February a four-masted steel barque—the Clan Graham, of nearly 2,000 tons register—while on a voyage from AJgoa Bay to the English Channel in ballast, ran aground on the rocks...