Open all Hours Nearly all of the Institution's 215 lifeboat stations held a special open day during the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, most of them opening on the Sunday, 28 May.
An estimated 65,000 people visited... - View image in PDF
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Exmouth lifeboat station caught the attention of a Westcountry Television cameraman when they landed a mermaid on lifeboat station open day.. - View image in PDF
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Torbay, Devon - At 9.59 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen about eight miles off Teignmouth. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 10.10 in a...
Rescued four SHORTLY BEFORE 1645 on March 27, 1987, a dinghy with five people on board capsized in the roads to the north west of Falmouth lifeboat station.
Mr John Pentecost, working nearby in his Quay Punt workboat...
LITTLEHAVEN.—The Friend Life-boat proceeded to the assistance of two schooners, the John Davies, of Carnarvon, bound from Portmadoc for Bridgewater with a cargo of slates, and the Maggie Brocklebank, of Barrow, bound from Liverpool for...
Exmouth, Devon-At 1.45 a.m. on 3rd June, 1968, the coastguard reported that a motor boat from Dawlish with two people on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The life-boat Michael Stephens slipped her moorings at 2.15. It was two hours...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.29 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in a position three miles southwest of Shoreham. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 7.38 in calm...
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 11 th of September.
1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that two small fishing boats, which had left Castlebay at four o'clock in the afternoon, had...
A hard shoulder to lean on.
Motorists on the M25 had something to distract them from the inevitable traffic jams in July when the ex- Courtmacsherry Solent class lifeboat R.
Hope Roberts made a passage to... - View image in PDF
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Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 2nd October, 1938, a rowing boat belonging to Westgate, with two men on board, was seen to be in difficulties about half a mile N. of the S.E.
Margate Buoy. She was being blown out to...