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Blue Peter 7 at Littlehampton Littlehampton's new Blue Peterfunded lifeboat Blue Peter 1 has been named and welcomed into the RNLI fleet at a special ceremony of dedication in October. This was a double celebration, as the new...
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Josse
Crew overboard during yacht rescue The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to helmsman Duane Brown of Walmer lifeboat after the rescue of three Belgians from their yacht Josse,aground on the Goodwin Sands, in strong winds...
Volant
During a whole N.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the morning of the 12th January the St. Nicholas Light-vessel commenced to fire signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were promptly assembled and at 7 A.M....
A Boat
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th August, two youths, aged 15 and 14 respec- tively, took a boat from her moorings in the harbour and proceeded out to sea.
OH getting clear of the harbour, it was noticed by...
An Estonian Steamer and King Egbert
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.20 P.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that an Estonian steamer in the roadstead had picked up a shipwrecked crew and had asked that the life-boat should...
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Edna
Aith, Shetlands. At 5.40 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a man told the honorary secretary that he had seen a green flare just west of the Island of Vementry. It was one hour to high water when the life-boat John and Francis MacFarlam put out at...
Diana
Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
Battling in a boiling torrent
Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test
The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...
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Pastime
Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk carrier Sugar Producer was...