Swanage, Dorset - At 7.53 p.m. on 16th May, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a girl was injured on the cliff half a mile west of Anvil point. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 8.5. It was three hours after...
APRIL 20TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A German aeroplane had been shot down in flames, but the only survivor was picked up by another boat. The lifeboat then learnt that two British aeroplanes had come down and joined in the search for...
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
DURING the nine months ending the 30th September, 1919, the town of Alloa, in Clackmannanshire, raised for the Institution a sum of £301. As Alloa has a population of 12,000, this works out at a contribution of 6d. a head. This record...
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HOPPER AND TUG COLLIDED Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.10 a.m. on 28th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a collision had taken place near the South Oaze buoy and that there were people in the water. The lifeboat Greater London II...
Four weeks after suffering spinal injuries falling 10m down a cliff on the Isle of Sheppey, 17-year-old
Logan Enfield called in to Sheerness Lifeboat Station to thank the crew who came to his rescue.
Logan, visiting...
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 9.58 in the morning the coast-guardreported that a parachute had been seen to drop twelve miles to the S.W., and at 10.23 the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched....
DEC. 28TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.45 A.M. the coastguard reported an explosion, and five minutes later a message was received that, a vessel was making distress signals on her siren, east of the piers, at no distance...
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking to the east of Peterhead, but other vessels put out, and the life-boat was not launched. At 2.45 next morning the coastguard...
SEPT. 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT. At 9.29 P.M .
the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...