On the 4th March between twenty and thirty fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin, carrying crews of about eighty men and boys, were placed in jeopardy by the sudden springing up of a gale of wind from S. by E. with a rough...
At 10 P.M.
on the 1st March, during a southerly gale, signals of distress were observed from a vessel in close proximity to the Breakwater Lighthouse, The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was at once despatched to her...
The survivor who clung to the mast for an hour was rescued by the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat (see page 729). - View image in PDF
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Bottom right - Gold medallists unite! - Left to right: Michael Scales (retired St Peter Port coxswain), Brian Bevan (Humber coxswain) and Hewitt Clark (Lerwick coxswain).. - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 22ND. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A motor fishing vessel had been overdue, but after spending the night aground she arrived next morning. - Rewards, £5 19s..
The RNLI Flood Rescue Team Land Rover is now available as a Corgi model, along with its very own trailer and lifeboat.
With a recent run of wet Summers, specially trained RNLI volunteers have rescued hundreds of people...
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UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH Margate, Kent. At 3.41 p.m. on ist April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been lost overboard from the survey ship H.M.S. Echo in the Edinburgh Channel off the North East Shingles...
SOUTHEND, ESSEX. — Signals having been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the night of the 19th January, the Lifeboat Theodore and Herbert was launched at 11 o'clock in a rough sea and a strong S.S.W. breeze, which afterwards increased to...
Walmer, Kent - At 3.55 p.m. on 23rd July, 1967, the coastguard informed thehonorary secretary that fire had broken out on board the cabin cruiser Ideaal which was one mile south east of the South Goodwin lightship. The life-boat Charles...