JULY 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The crew of an aeroplane were adrift in their dinghy, but they were picked up by a trawler. - Rewards, £14 19s. 6d..
The Walmer life-boat was being launched down her skids in December, 1944, when a hook slipped and she ran suddenly into a rough sea with only the motor mechanic, C. P. Cavell, on board. When he felt her afloat he came on deck to find himself...
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25th June. A small yacht ran ashore on the break- water, but her crew were rescued by a motor boat.—Rewards, £9 Is..
Crew member swims through heavy surf and scales cliff to survivor Simon Chadwick, a member of Bude lifeboat crew, has received a letter of thanks from the Chairman of the Institution following his first service call in the station's D...
A memorial to the crew of the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat who lost their lives on the night of 17th March, 1969, when their boat capsized in severe weather conditions, was unveiled in Osmondwall cemetery by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother...
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THE Norwegian Government has awarded silver medals and diplomas to Mr. E. Selby Davidson, honorary secretary of the Tynemouth station, Coxswain George Lisle, W. Johnson, the motor mechanic, and Bartholomew Taylor, a member of the crew, for...
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KINLOSS, ELGINSHIRE. At 11.40 in the morning of the 27th August, 1941, it was reported to the Burghead coastguard hy the R.A.F. at Kinloss, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of Kinloss. Three men put out from...
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Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1956the coastguard telephoned that a French trawler was burning flares a mile and a quarter south of Lowestoft harbour. The life-boat Greater Lon- don (Civil Service No. 3)...
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
Islay, Hebrides.—At 7.50 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of June, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steamer King George V, of Glas- gow, on passage from the Clyde to Oban with thirty-nine people on board, was aground at Scarba...