Amphibious rescue Eastbourne - South East Division The Director of the RNLI has sent a letter of appreciation to two Eastbourne brothers after an unusual shore-boat service in which their amphibious vehicle helped a fishing boat, while...
At noon on 26th August, 1966, the Air Commandant, Guernsey Airport, told the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed off Alderney and asked if the life-boat could be sent to investigate.
Three aqua-lung divers, who...
Three saved from dismasted catamaran in storm conditionsP) lymouth's Arun class City of Plymouth made headline news locally when she went to the aid of the 35ft catamaran Myros. which had been dismasted in storm force winds on Thursday...
St Mary's Arun Robert Edgar heads out to sea with the survivor from Bacarole. More photos page 125.. - View image in PDF
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1. Padstow lifeboat crew give an angler first aid while the RNAS Culdrose helicopter lowers a stretcher. - View image in PDF
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Far right: Joel was awarded the Jolly Fisherman, a Skegness community award, for his services to lifesaving. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Blogg has now won, since the outbreak of war, the Institution's gold medal for the third time and its silver medal for the third and fourth times. He has also been awarded, by the King, for the rescue of those 88 lives on the...
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While a strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy broken sea, on the llth May, the barque Margarethe, of Borgo, Finland, bound from Fleetwood for Canada, stranded on Barnard's Wharf. The Life-boat Maude Pickup was launched...
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — During the morning of the 28th August, 1938, a vessel under sail was seen beating up towards Cefn Sidan. A moderate N.
gale was blowing, with a moderate sea.
The vessel was...
TWO MEN FROM LONGSHORE BOAT LANDED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 2.28 on the afternoon of the 22nd January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Lowestoft trawler Unda had picked up two men from the longshore boat Dulcie...