SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
A small boat was reported to have capsized, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £14 14s..
NOVEMBER 17TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A British airman was reported to have baled out into the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £28 0s. 6d..
COXSWAIN JOHN Fox and the young crew of the Shoreham life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the rescue of two people from a...
Category: Services
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.43 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a British Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea two miles east of Embleton, some seven miles N.N.E. of the...
TWO CASUALTIES TAKEN OFF TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 5th May, 1962, the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could be launched later in the day to bring a sick man and an injured man ashore...
The Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at about 4 A.M. on the 13th February in a N.N.W.
gale and heavy sea in answer to signals of distress from a vessel on the Walpole Rock. The schooner Perseverance, of Fowey, was...
Gold medallion The photograph below shows a 15-carat gold 'Lifeboat Saturday' medallion of 1895 from Manchester and Salf ord which was awarded to the 'Whalley Range C.C.' as first prize in the cyclists and harriers fancy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. A Lancaster aeroplane was believed to have blown up in the air, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £22 11s. 9d..
Filey On 2 July 2001 For The Naming. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
NORTH DEAL, KINGSDOWNE, BROADSTAIRS and RAMSGATE.—On the 8th April the s.s. Langdon, of London, bound fromBlyth for Dartmouth, with a cargo of coal, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands, in a dangerous position, during a dense fog, at about 4...