WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The steam trawler Teal, of London, returning to Lowestoft from the fishing grounds, in thick weather, on the night of the 17th January, stranded about a mile N. of Winterton. At about 1 A.M. she was seen by the look-out...
TOW TAKEN OVER FROM COBLE Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 9.35 on the morning of the 29th March, 1963, the coxswain received a message from the Filey fishermen that the Scarborough keelboat Hyperion had reported by radio-telephone that the...
MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...
Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...
Large crowds gathered four times a day to watch the combined RAF and RNLI rescue displays.. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...
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Again, on the 1st December, the Lifeboat went out in response to signals of distress shown from the schooner Catherine & Ellen, which had been overtaken by strong gale from the N.N.W., and which had brought up far out in the bay. The...
FISHGUAHD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — The Life-boat Appin rendered valuable assistance to the smack George Evans, of Cardigan, on the 18th April. About 3 P.M. a vessel was reported by the Coastguard showing signals of distress, and the Life-boat...
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AS THE CLIMAX of 'The Year of the Lifeboat', the RNLI will be playing a prominent part in the 1975 International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 1 to 11. The very first thing visitors approaching the exhibition from Warwick...
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