New Brighton, Cheshire - At 1.16 p.m.
on 3rd August, 1969, the police informed the coxswain that the yachts Two's Company and Martlett, each with a crew of two, were in difficulties near Rock Channel off New...
THE new 37-foot Oakley life-boat to be stationed at Clacton-on-Sea is to be named Valentine Wyndham-Quin after Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., Chairman of the R.N.L.I..
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The painting presented to John Dare on his retirement as coxswain after 31 years service depicts the Arun City of Plymouth during a service to a yacht at Wembury Rocks.. - View image in PDF
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(Left) Mr Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI addresses the audience at the Annual Presentation of Awards ceremony in the Festival Hall, London on 14 May 1991.. - View image in PDF
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Members of Workington ladies lifeboat guild recently served up hot dogs, tea and coffee to weary fisherman who had been trying their luck at the local fishing competition.. - View image in PDF
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Mark (38) is a motor mechanics lecturer at Hartlepool College of Further Education. He has been a probationer since the end of 2004. - View image in PDF
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Above: Some of the 80 guests arriving for the gala performance of 'The Merry Widow' at Holland Park in Kensington on 27 June 2001.. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 13TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At about 1.30 in the afternoon the Langney Point coastguard telephoned that seven men working on the wreck of the S.S. Barnhill should be taken off at once.
A strong S.W....
JUNE 27TH. TORBAY, DEVON. A boy had hired a rowing boat at Brixham and not returned, but he had gone ashore near Torquay and there abandoned the boat.- Rewards, £8 8s..
NOVEMBER 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 9.3 in the morning the Sandgate coastguard reported a motor yacht in distress two and a half miles south-south-west of Dungeness Lighthouse. A fresh north-easterly breeze was blowing,...