A lifetime of lifesaving Joel Grunnill tells the Lifeboat how he overcame ice, injuries and even bullets during his so-far-78 years of volunteering Skegness born and bred, Joel Grunnill was part of the Lincolnshire town’s lifeboat crew for...
Category: Articles
MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...
Category: Correspondence
SIR WILLIAM HILLARY'S " An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck," was published early in the year 1823, the preface...
Category: Articles
Enjoyable sail turns into near disaster Windsurfer Christopher Long was out enjoying a brisk sail last September when gear failure disabled his board and he spent three hours in the water. When Eastbourne's inshore lifeboat picked him up...
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
1948 £ *. d.
148,673 4 1 360 4 2 .47,180 13 3 143 7 11 32,729 2 1 14,801 14 7 1,039 17 11 2,010 4 6 246,938 8 6 20,782 15 - 41 - - 2,165 17 6 2,652 4 6 1,816 6 5 181 2 6 27,639 5 11 27,042 18 8 23,516 4 7 198 18 10...
Category: Accounts
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 11.40 a.m. on 24th April, 1966, a police inspector informed the honorary secretary that a car or van had gone over the cliffs and into the sea, close to the Aberdaron look-out hut. As no other suitable...
The motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 11.32 A.M. on the 2nd December, as the coastguard had reported that a fishing boat, six and a half miles S.E. of Skeg- ness, had hoisted distress signals. A strong W. by S. breeze was blowing,...
Margate, Kent. —At 12.17 in the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting three and. a half miles north- north-east of the pier. A strong north- north-west...
On the 26th August, during a strong westerly gale, information was received at this Life-boat station that a large vessel was ashore about four miles distant. The Life-boat Jessie Knowles was taken along the shore on her carriage until she...