Tenby's Tyne class lifeboat RFA Sir Galahad, pictured with her Royal Fleet Auxiliary namesake Sir Galahad. The lifeboat is named to commemorate the RFA ship lost during the Falklands conflict (Photo Gareth Davies). - View image in PDF
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(Below) Mayor of Lambeth, Councillor Hugh Chambers, presents a cheque for £2,235 to Michael Ashley, RO (South London), while the Mayoress looks on. This impressive sum was raised by junior school children throughout the Borough of... - View image in PDF
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ON 25th October last, the Motor Lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough, with heavy squalls...
JULY 20TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the motor fishing boat Joan and Mary had gone out with a crew of three. As by evening she had not returned and no news had been received of another boat which had gone out to look for her,...
Selsey, Sussex.—At 5.40 on the after- noon of the 9th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Chichester police had reported a yacht in difficulties half a mile off Brackles- ham Bay. At six o'clock the life-boat Canadian...
FEB. 11TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. At 9.55 P.M. a telephone message was received that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the life-boat to take ashore a man who was dangerously...
Information reached Broughty Ferry between 7 and 8 P.M. on the 3rd April that a steam trawler was ashore on the Goa Bank, and signalling for assistance.
The crew of the Life-boat Samuel Shaw- cross were summoned and the...
On the night of the 18th January signals of distress were seen in the vicinity of the Shering- ham Shoal, and the Life-boat Louisa Heart-well was launched as soon as her crew could be assembled. A very heavy sea was running, and...
CLIFF FALL At 7.32 p.m. on 24th April, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that two boys had fallen over the cliff at Whitewaterbrook.
The life-boat A.M.T. was launched at 7.42 in a light westerly wind and a smooth...