EARLY in the afternoon of the 9th December, 1938, the open motor crabber, Channel Pride, of Dartmouth, was overtaken by a sudden gale off Coombe Point, Dartmouth. She had two men on board. Her skipper decided to return at once, but the...
Category: Services
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 17th of January, 1952, the South Gare Lighthouse keeper telephoned that a ship had gone aground on the training wall in the mouth of the River Tees, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat...
Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...
[NT the Times newspaper of the 20th of February last, we read the following narration of a deplorable occurrence by which industrious men were deprived of life, and their families, all in indigent circumstances, left in sorrow to struggle...
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Life-Boat In The Lord Mayor's Show Passing St Paul's. - View image in PDF
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Blackpool's 16Ft Inflatable Lifeboat D310 Searches Along The Surf Edge. - View image in PDF
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Above: The curiously named. - View image in PDF
Coastguard tug. Far Turbot.. - View image in PDF
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William and Grace—Their Epic Rescue Touched The Nation's Heart.
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Right: Passengers help pack away the enormous balloon Photos: Laura wiltshire. - View image in PDF
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Girvan, June 25 The second of the new 33ft Brede class lifeboats to go on station in Scotland was named Philip Vaux at a ceremony which took place at Girvan Harbour on Saturday June 25. Largely funded from a bequest by the late Mrs Elizabeth...
Category: Inaugurations