R-eel-y good deed The crew of Cullercoats inshore lifeboat went to the aid of an unusual casualty in March - a 7ft conger eel! The 70lb fish, named Queenie, was given a flying start on her journey to the spawning grounds of the Azores, when...
Forest Row Choir named at Shoreham The second D class lifeboat funded by the Forest Row lifeboat choir was named and dedicated by Dorothy Rumens, choir member, on 31 August 1996 Some 200 people attended the ceremony at Shoreham, including 50... - View image in PDF
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A hard shoulder to lean on.
Motorists on the M25 had something to distract them from the inevitable traffic jams in July when the ex- Courtmacsherry Solent class lifeboat R.
Hope Roberts made a passage to... - View image in PDF
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MAY 11TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
Cobles were out fishing, and at 11.45 in the morning, as a strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, the life-boat coxswain decided that it was not safe for them to come in...
JANUARY 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 4.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that Light-vessel No. 85 was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes. The No. 1 Cromer motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 4.50 P.M...
MARCH 30TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.30 A.M. a small vessel was reported to be aground on Whitby Rock, but no distress signals had been made. Fishing boats leaving harbour had gone to her help. A strong northerly wind was...
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At about 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two hundred yards west of the Hook Beacon. A light S.S.E. wind was...
JANUARY 2 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. About 2.30 in the afternoon the naval authorities asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to go to the help of two landing craft about a mile south of Shoreham. A strong southerly wind was...
JULY 16TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 11.10 in the morning the Tenby coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a vessel ashore on Grassholm Island and in need of help. It had been...
DECEMBER 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.50 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel near the Wallet Spit Buoy was flashing signals and might be in need of help, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden...