Two brothers who manned the Exmouth inshore rescue boat and who were washed overboard in an attempted rescue, have each been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum. They are Mr. Peter Rowsell, the helmsman, and Mr. Brian...
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NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—Shortly before noon on the 7th January the Coastguard reported that a ketch was in need of assistance off St. Agnes Head. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 5 were immediately summoned, and the boat proceeded with...
DROGHEDA, IRELAND.—The schooner John Green, of this port, bound there with coal from Ardrossan, was entering the river Boyne on the llth February, while the wind was blowing hard from the E.N.E., and a very heavy sea...
(Above) There were 129 participants, from all over Sussex, in a five-mile sponsored swim in the River Adur at Shoreham last March. It was organised by the Brighton branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club, and the £2,048.30 raised in a... - View image in PDF
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THIS account of a service by the Tynemouth life-boat in September, 1949, should have appeared among the services for that month in The Life-boat for December of last year.
On the evening of the 23rd of Sep- tember, 1949,...
Category: Services
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
Skegness: A Balcar 105 helicopter was seen to crash into the sea, five miles east south east of Skegness, on the afternoon of Tuesday July 24, 1984. At 1306 Skegness's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat launched from the beach manned...
Back with their feet firmly on the ground are six intrepid first-time parachutists: (I to r) Jim Bridge, Colin Robins, Dave Allison, Michael Riley, Keith Benn and George West, honorary secretary of Whitehaven branch: with them (r.) to... - View image in PDF
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Committee of Management Commandant Vonla McBride, former director of the WRNS, Christopher Lucy, a stockbroker, and John James, a chartered surveyor, have joined the Committee of Management of the RNLI.
Commandant McBride...
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Seven rescued ANGLESEY RADIO received a message from the 36' fishing vessel Kia-Ora at 1926 on January 27 to say that she had broken down off Hestan Island, was dragging her anchor in severe weather conditions and needed lifeboat...