Youth group members from St. Peter's Church in Pembury raised £466 for lifeboat coffers in March by washing cars and selling home-made cakes.
The group of 14 youngsters presented a cheque to Peter Chartes, chairman... - View image in PDF
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8th March. A fishing boat went ashore under Peace- haven cliffs, but the rocket apparatus was in attendance.—Rewards, £15 18s.
At midnight on the 12th November it was reported that a vessel had gone on the Long Bock. The Life-boat's crew were summoned, and the boat proceeded to the vessel and brought ashore her crew of three men. She proved to be the schooner...
. . . and farewell to the 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat, a class which has served the RNLI, both as a pulling and sailing lifeboat and then as a motor lifeboat, since the mid 1800s. Grace Darling (below), built in 1954, the last of her... - View image in PDF
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Plymouth Life-Boat Returns After Her Annual Survey. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Alan Barnes presents the Falmouth crew to Her Majesty. - View image in PDF
Picture: Simon Cullitord. - View image in PDF
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Top: Summer winner Miss M Jackson and her niece Harriet. - View image in PDF
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Early on the morning of the 19th January several fishing boats put off, the weather at the time being fine, and the wind westerly. Later on the wind changed to the north and blew a gale, and the sea got up and broke heavily off the harbour...
KASTBOURNK: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were...
NOVEMBER 4TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At seven in the morning the coastguard reported a ship ashore at Rottingdean.
A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...