Mr. Claude M. Hart and the coxswain and ex-coxswain of the life-boat at The Lizard, with all that was found by the life-boats from Cadgwith and The Lizard of an aeroplane which crashed in the sea one night. - View image in PDF
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Fifteen local motor fishing cobles put to sea early on the morning of the 2nd April, in moderate weather. By 8 A.M. the weather was rapidly becoming worse and the sea was very rough. The pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the Third was...
THE photograph of Coxswain Blogg, of Cromer, on the cover, was taken by Illustrated in 1940, and is reproduced by its very kind permission..
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.39 P.M.
on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that the motor yacht Mayflower, of Great Yarmouth, was ashore at Jaywick. As the yacht was not then in a dangerous...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 9.44 on the morn- ing of the 27th of July, 1954. a message was received from the East Pier that amotor yacht was burning red flares off Quern Buoy in the Ramsgate channel. At 9.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of...
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.0 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, preparations were almost complete for the new life-boat's naming ceremony when severalcalls were received of a boat in distress in Scotsmans bay. At 4.20 p.m. the lifeboat...
Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa/Kirkwall was told at 12.19 p.m. on l l t h July that a flat bottomed dinghy was missing from Weyland bay. It was thought that a Norwegian seaman was on board.
The IRB carried aboard the life-boat...
Cromer No. 2, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—14th February, 1938.
A steamer had foundered after striking the Haisborough Sands, but her crew was rescued by the Gorleston Volunteer life-boat.—Rewards : Cromer,...