Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Three local fish- ing boats were at sea on the morning of the llth of November, 1952, in deteriorating weather, and at 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a heavy sea with a northerly gale blowing....
Six saved from sinking German yachtA service by the Dover lifeboat, the Thames class Rotary Service, on 25 August 1992 has earned her coxswain, Anthony Hawkins, and his crew a letter of appreciation from Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI'...
Yacht towed to safety from breaking seas on lee shore A difficult service in darkness, gale force winds and heavy breaking seas just yards from a sea wall has earned Coxswain James Kinnon of Ramsey lifeboat station the Thanks of the...
IN the article called " A Roam Through the Annual Report," which appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that the number of places in which Street Collections had been held in 1928 was nearly 800, and that in this...
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Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
MFV sinks BLYTH LIFEBOAT station motor mechanic, John Scott, called up Tynemouth Coastguard at 1825 on Tuesday December 7, 1982, to tell them that the lifeboat would be sailing for a rough weather exercise. He was informed that the fishing...
NORTH SUNDERLAND.— The Life-boat Thomas Bewick was called out on service on the afternoon of the 4th of April to the assistance of the barque Ornen, of Frederickstadt, which was water-logged,and had driven on the Greenhill Sands, striking a...
At 9 A.M. on the 14th November, the same Life-boat proceeded, in fow of a steam-tug, to the assistance of the Norwegian barque Burthon, which had gone on the Holme Sand. On reaching the vessel she was found to be...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At two in the afternoon of the 4th of Novem- ber, 1951, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small sailing boat making for Bembridge was in distress off Seaview and at 2.15 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...