JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI/(Penarth, Porthdinllaen, Norma Stockford, Vicky Walmsley-Williams, Charlie Williams)
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JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
THOUGH the honour of designing and building the first Life-boat to be per- manently stationed on our coasts belongs to William Wouldhave, of South Shields, and Henry Greathead, and the initiative of establishing the first Life-boat Station...
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Highlights from the Chairman's report to the Annual General Meeting on 22 May 2003At the Lifeboats AGM in May, Chairman Peter Nicholson looked back over another successful year, but warned that the Institution needs to react to a... - View image in PDF
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Dungeness, Kent. —At 11.50 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, the Lade coastguard reported a dinghy off Littlestone making distress signals, and at noon the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a light breeze with...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.15 in the morning of the 23rd of March, 1952, the Swansea Superintendent of Trinity House asked if the life-boat would fetch a sick man from the Helwick Lightvessel as the Trinity House vessel could not make the...
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. —• At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th of March, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer reported seeing wreckage eleven miles east-south-east of Gourdon, believed to be of the S.S.
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Runswick, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather worsened while local fishing boats were at sea, and at 10.30 the life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched.
The sea was very heavy and a gale was...