AT 5.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard at Brid- lington telephoned the life-boat station that two girl bathers were being washed seawards in Thornwick Bay, and at 5.35 the life-boat Tillie Morri- son, Sheffield...
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Coxswain Henry W. Pearson, an alderman of Deal, who died on 17th November, 1937, at the age of seventy- one, was second coxswain of the Walmer life-boat from 1909 to 1912, when the station was closed, and became the coxswain when the station...
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MAY 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At about 6.42 P.M. the coastguard reported an explosion eight to ten miles N.E. by 1/2 E. of Buckie, and the motor life-boat K.B.M.
was launched at 7.9 P.M. A strong...
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Four Signed Maritime Fine Art Prints • BY MICHAEL JAMES WHITEH AND THE CHANNEL FLEET The might of the Channel Fleet sailing for battle against the French.
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THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.
Since 1924 there has been a great im-...
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SURVIVORS FROM RAFT LANDED Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.51 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Scampton had picked up a man and a woman from a raft about 40 miles...
On the 20th October the Lytham life-boat again rendered a very important service. The American ship Annie E. Hooper, of Balti- more, U.S., 1,140 tons burden, with a crew of 18 men, and a cargo of wheat, flour, and tobacco, stranded on the...
The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...
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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...