Fishermen saved by inshore lifeboatWhen four anglers slipped into a rough sea near Newcastle Co Down it took the combined efforts of the station's D class inshore lifeboat and its Mersey class all-weather boat to snatch them to...
IN the July Number of the Life-Boat Journal for 1852, will be found a brief account of the Foreign Life-boat Stations on the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark; we are gratified to learn from a recent traveller, that there is a...
Category: Correspondence
To MICHAEL F. HARDY, on his retirement, after serving for 27 years as coxswain and 4f years as second coxswain of the Eastbourne life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To...
Category: Awards
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded collectively to the crew of the Swanage life-boat for the rescue of a man who had been stranded in a cave for more than two days.
At about 9 o'clock...
Category: Services
Lee shore FOLLOWING THE SIGHTING of a red flare in Dovercourt Bay by the BR sea freight liner. Thames Coastguard telephonedthe honorary secretary of Walton and Frinton lifeboat station and the deputy launching authority of Harwich lifeboat...
Reduce the risks Given the antics of condemed yachtsman Eric Abbott who 'navigates' by road maps, isn't it time to formalise some form of mandatory training before people put to sea. This guy shows total contempt for the...
Category: Correspondence
Awards on the Closing of Stations.
ALNMOUTH.
JOHN W. STEWART, 12J years second cox- swain and 8$ years a member of the crew, a life-boatman's certificate of service, and a pension.
Category: Awards
To THOMAS PENGILLY, on his retirement, after serving 27 years as Coxswain and previously 10 years as Second Coxswain of the Clovelly Life-boat, a Certificate of Ser- vice and a Pension.
To JOHN W. PLUMMER, on his...
Category: Awards
Cave campers swamped Six cave campers at Tenby were taken by surprise in the early hours of 5 August, when the tide came in and washed their possessions away. They retreated further into the cave, but soon found themselves in deep water....
Category: Services
APRIL Launches 77. Lives rescued 131.
APRIL 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.53 P.M. on 31st March, a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham that a boat from H.M.S. Pomerol with men on board was adrift...
Category: Services