JULY 23RD. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. An aeroplane had been seen flying low near The Needles and then an explosion had been heard, but the aeroplane had crashed on land. - Rewards, £5 4s. 6d.
MAY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 9 A.M. a naval establishment onshore reported through the coastguard that a vessel was signalling for a doctor. The weather was fine, with a light N.E. wind and a smooth sea. With a...
SWANAGE.—On the, 7th January, a messenger arrived from Studland stating that a vessel was in distress near the entrance to Poole Harbour. The Life-boat Charlotte Mary was at once launched and proceeded to the spot, when it was found that the...
Filey, Yorkshire. At 3.32 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that five Filey cobles were still at sea, and as the weather was getting worse asked if the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Mihted would...
LIFE-BOATMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.35 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1948, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that white flares had been seen off C.2 Red Buoy. The life-boat's crew went out in the...
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. On the night of the 11th the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat was launched, in very bad weather, to search for two overdue fishing boats. She could not find...
LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.
When not in use the net of the...
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CULLERCOATS.—On the 10th January the Palmerston Life-boat put off to the aid of a fishing-coble which had been caught in a very high sea, rendering it dangerous for her to cross the bar. With the assistance of the Life-boat the coble safely...
Four of the St. Ives crew on the Serpentine. - View image in PDF
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This is the new sign of The Life-boat Inn at Brancaster, Norfolk, and has been painted from the picture, by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the Cromer service to the barge Sepoy in December, 1933. It is reproduced by courtesyLof the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs