At 9.46 p.m. on 1st February, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 16 foot motor boat with a 16-year-old boy on board was missing from Strand, Gillingham. The life-boat Canadian Pacific slipped her moorings at 10.3 in...
During the night of 18/19 March 1988 a 25ft Jaguar class yacht, on passage from Ramsgate to Gillingham ran aground in strong winds, fog and driving rain at Jury's Gap, Camber.
Rye's C class inflatable The Lewes... - View image in PDF
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Members of Wells lifeboat crew were invited to a special RNLI evening held by Cambridge Motor Boat Club. Here the club's commodore. Bob Foote (I), is seen presenting a cheque for £175 to Coxswain David Cox of Wells. His cousin, Crew... - View image in PDF
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October 14th. Soon after noon a gale sprang ijp suddenly i from the eastward. A lar^e' number of! Scarborough fishing vessels, which were outside, had to bear up .and run for the harbour at Scarborough. Vessels which ; fall to...
On the 26th February the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into re- quisition. Early in the morning the boat of the brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm, with 4 of her crew, and a Lowestoft pilot on board, found their way...
FEBRUARY 6TH and 9TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 8.40 at night the coastguard telephoned that red rockets had been fired by a vessel three miles north-west of St.
Agnes Head, and the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
—On the 30th of June, 19.51, the Chief Inspector of the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked if the life-boat would take provisions to the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse next day. The Commis-...
Up, up and away.' Fund raisers launched 1,000 balloons from Si Bernard's School, Barrow to help buv a lifeboat. It was all part of a national event organised by the Keep Fit Association to raise cash for the RNLI. Terry Downing, hon... - View image in PDF
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Pulling and sailing life-boat setting out from London to Whitby.. - View image in PDF
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In April over 170 guests ate, drank and danced the night away at a 175 Dinner Dance organised by Bangor branch.. - View image in PDF
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