St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
At 6.50 P.M. on the 30th April a message was received from the Coastguard at Shoreham that a small boat had cap- sized about half a mile off the Towers, West Worthing. The Motor Life-boat Samuel Oakes was launched at 7.12...
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 7.40 in the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a motor yacht was in a dangerous place inside the revetment on the south side of the Queen's Channel near the Formby...
FEBRUARY 3RD. - BRIDLINGTON, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About noon a message was received at Bridlington from the coastguard that the S.S. KildaleKildale was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes ten to twenty miles N.E. of Spurn, and that her...
26th July.
A small boat was reported to be in dis- tress off Brighton, but she made New- haven safely.—Rewards, £5 6s..
AUGUST 5TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
At about 8 in the morning the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Emulate, of Kirkcaldy, was in difficulties about four miles W.N.W. of Peel, and the motor life-boat Helen Sutton was...
Mark Coleman (left) of E. P. Barrus presents RNLI Director Brian Miles with one of three detailed commemorative replica model of Lawnflite, the D class inshore lifeboat donated by Barrus to the RNLI during the London Boat Show 1996.
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Mrs Doreen Rash, better known as Doreen Wallace the author, is also a painter. Last July Mrs Rash, now in her 87th year, staged an exhibition of her unframed sketches at her home in Norfolk and by their sale raised £140 for Diss... - View image in PDF
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The Institution wishes to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree for their gifts of thirty tins of chocolate each, which have been sent for use in the Lifeboats. For a number of years these three...
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