Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — The steam trawler Pelagos, of Granton, ran ashore on South Carr rocks in a dense fog on the morning of the llth July, while returning to Granton from the North Sea fishing grounds. A moderate east breeze was...
Troon, Ayrshire - At 4.20 p.m. on 9th April, 1966, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized off Croy Hotel and two people were hanging on to the boat. The lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken was launched at 4.35 in a...
On the 27th September three fishing cobles, belonging to Cullercoats, while returning from fishing about 9 o'clock in the morn- ing, were unable to cross the bar, owing to the heaviness of the sea. The wind was blowing from the east at...
BODY OF SWIMMER LANDED Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th August, 1962, the coastguard [informed the honorary secretary that a young woman had been swept from the rocks under Lands End by a large wave. At...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.20 on the evening of the 12th of September, 1954, a man at Sark reported that the motor yacht Dorian had left Sark, with six people on board, for Guernsey at six o'clock that evening and ought to have...
A BAptism By fiRe ANd WAteR At the northernmost tip of mainland Scotland, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean siphon into the North Sea and back again, twice a day, through a churning channel less than 7 miles wide. One new recruit will always...
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When snow and ice accompany storm force winds endurance of a high order is asked of lifeboat crews; an active endurance which will enable them to maintain efficiency and bring a service to a successful conclusion even after many hours at sea...
Category: Services
The handing over ceremony of the new D class lifeboat at Hastings took place at the station on 29 November 1989.
Mr Joe Adams, chairman of the Hastings station branch, welcomed the guests at the ceremony, and the lifeboat,... - View image in PDF
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Film men rescued BRONZE MEDAL FILMING OF A STUNT for the latest James Bond film at Beachy Head, East Sussex, on Tuesday, December 9, 1986, took a dramatic turn when a 17ft outboard-powered Dory, recovering equipment from beneath the cliffs,...
Another old and most valued friend of the Institution, Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough, passed away on 24th January. Miss Swallow had been a Life-boat worker for thirty years, first as Honorary Secretary of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund,...
Category: Obituaries