Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.25 on the morning of the 20th of September, I960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a light had been observed flashing off shore south of Withernsea. At 6.38 the life-boat City of Bradford III...
PENARTH.—At 7.30 P.M. on the 7th March, in answer to signals of distress, the Life-boat Joseph Denman was launched, and boarded the brig Crocodile, of Dartmouth, which vessel had got ashore on the west end of Cardiff sands. A strong gale was...
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE On the 23rd February, 1946, the Whitby life-boat rescued a member of the crew of the fishing boat Easter Morn, who was washed overboard.
LIFE-BOATMAN JOHN ROBERT HARLAND was awarded the silver...
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Margate, Kent.—At 11.7 on the morn- ing of the 14th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to pass on a report that a cabin cruiser north of East Margate buoy was burning a flare and flashing a light. At 11.20 the life-boat North...
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was published of the Memorial Service at Bridlington for the men who lost their lives on 10th February, 1871, when an unusually severe gale burst on the north-east coast of England, and at...
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Coxswain William Mogridge, Torbay, Devon, and Coxswain Frank Blewett, Penlee, Cornwall.. - View image in PDF
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WHITSTABLE, October 27, 1987: the station's Atlantic 21 shepherds the yacht Porta Coeli into harbour after she had fired distress flares, drifting near the Spaniard buoy. She had suffered engine failure and her lone occupant had been in... - View image in PDF
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Brigg, South Humberside, ladies' guild ran a stall at the town's annual charity market on July 18, raising £135. The guild also won the runner-up prize for the best dressed stall holders—and the chairman and honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
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Daventry and District branch members and friends raised a total of £2,245 at this year's annual Braunstone Boat Show held on the Grand Union Canal at Braunstone, Daventry over the Spring bank holiday weekend. The three day event is... - View image in PDF
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New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.32 on the evening of the 30th of March, 1958, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Tiger Moth aircraft had crashed in the River Mersey, off Speke airfield, five hundred yards off shore....