FEBRUARY 24TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. An ex-coxswain, an exsecond coxswain and two farm workers helped to make up the life-boat’s crew. - Rewards, £20...
Cut off by the tide DURING THE AFTERNOON of Sunday, January 3, 1988 the station honorary secretary of Staithes and Runswick was informed by a member of the public that four adults and two boys were cut off by the tide a few yards from the...
Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.45 a.m. on lyth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that cries for help had been heard near Ringstead beach, four miles east of Weymouth. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke went out at 3 o'clock on an ebbing tide...
Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 4.30 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, a small motor boat appeared in difficulties off Millisle.
There was a strong northerly wind with avery rough sea. The tide was ebbing.
The life-boat...
JANUARY 15T H . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 10.5 P.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported a vessel sounding S.O.S. to the N.W. of the Gate Ship.
A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. It was...
AUTUMN 2010
Ms J Pollard-Ovens of West Glamorgan scooped first prize of £5,000 in the Autumn Lifeboat Lottery and elebrated with a visit to her local lifeboat station at Port Talbot.
The other cash prize...
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7th April.
Distress signals had been reported, but no trace of a vessel in distress could be found. Rewards, £9 11s..
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—27th September, 1938. Large patches of smoke had been reported, but no vessel in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £15 2s. 6d..
Margate, Kent.—3rd March. A small boat with two boys on board had been reported missing, but no trace of her could be found.—Rewards, £14 2s..
Shoreham Harbour,Sussex—17thMay, 1938. White rockets had been reported from a vessel to the south-east, but no vessel in distress was found.— Rewards, £10 5s..