JULY 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2.15 P.M. the Ramsgate naval base asked the life-boat crew to stand by from 3 P.M.
This they did. An hour later they were asked to go out to a rubber dinghy reported to be off Birchington with...
No less than 74 people took to the stage to accept honorary awards at the afternoon ceremony. ‘They all give generously of their time – some as station personnel, others as officials and members of branches and guilds,’ said Paul...
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When a well-known Scarborough man ended up in the dark surf last Winter, the community did everything they could to help him -and his memory- live on
In the early evening of Sunday 22 February,...
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Ferry horror ppy endingEven experienced sailors can sometimes get caught out by unusual circumstances. Saturday 5 May was a bright, clear day, one of the first weekends this year with ideal weather for a pleasant day's...
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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CULLERCOATS.—A heavy sea came on at about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 29th September, and as all the fishing boats had gone out it was considered advisable to launch the Co-Operator No. 1 Life-boat in case any accident should happen...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—About 7.45 on the morning of the 26th of Novem- ber, 1955, the port radar station reported that a message had been received from a steamer that a fishing boat was in distress and asking for help between C.19 and C.21...
Thurso.
At ten at night, on the 2nd February, a message was received that a vessel had gone ashore on Brims Ness, six miles from Thurso, the scene of many wrecks. She was found later to be the trawler Edward VII., of...
OWING to the very large number of services early in the year it is possible to include in this number of The Life- boat the accounts only of those reported to the February and March meetings of the Committee of...
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About 3 A.M. on the 25th November the Mary Hartley life-boat was launched, and pro- ceeded, in tow of a steam-tug, down the river to Buddonness, to. the rescue of the crew of a vessel reported to be in distress.
At...