50 years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 1, September 1940 SUSPENSION OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal The Lifeboat" stopped publication after...
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The new boat, presented by the Free- masons of "Warwickshire, and named the Lady Leigh, soon inaugurated its mission of mercy, it having been called out on service on the evening of Sunday the 10th Nov. The brig Palestine, of Whitby,...
THE seventh Christmas party, given by the staff of the Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 20th December at the Bromley Public Hall.
Four days before this a tea...
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At 9.24 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a young man had been cut off by the tide at Whitby Hight light and that the lifesaving apparatus team were proceeding with cliff rescue gear. The honorary secretary alerted the...
Torbay, Devonshire.—On the 27th October, 1939, it was reported to the senior naval officer, Weymouth, by an observer on a R.A.F. aeroplane, en- gaged on reconnaisance over West Bay, that a motor boat was drifting about ten miles north-east...
CLACTON COASTGUARD intercepted a message from Warden Point Coastguard to Margate Coastguard at 1556 on July 15, 1974, advising that red flares had been sighted by MV Moreton Bay between No. 9 and No. 10 Buoys in Black Deep Channel. Mansion...
Having a ball The Royal Solent Yacht club held its annual charity auction and regatta on 29 and 30 May - raising a whopping £15,480 for RNLI funds.
The weekend event which also included a ball, a barbecue lunch... - View image in PDF
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1954, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a vessel needed help off South West Shingles Buoy. At 8.44 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.30 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the wireless operator on board the s.s. Persic of Southampton had had a heart attack and needed a doctor. After...
CREW TAKEN OFF DISMASTED YACHT Redcar, Yorkshire. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties a mile and a half northeast of Saltscar buoy....