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AN APPEAL has been launched in Nottinghamshire to raise £150,000 to fund a Brede type lifeboat to be named The Nottinghamshire. In support of the appeal, the ex-Scarborough 37ft Oakley lifeboat /. G. Graves of Sheffield (service...
Category: Articles
Rachel and Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 12th of December,1957, the coxswain saw that the weather was deteriorating and asked permission of the honorary secretary to launch the life-boat to escort two fishing cobles still at...
A Little Dogged Determination...
The guests of honour at the annual RNLI coffee morning in Mayfield, East Sussex on 2 December 1995 were Keith Stevens, son of the stationmaster at Mayfield (in the days when they had a railway!) and now a member of the crew of the Selsey... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Useful
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 9.25 on the evening of the 2nd of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel six miles south-west-by-south of Shoreham was making distress signals. At 9.35 the life-boat Rosa...
"Life-Boat Saturday" Help! Help!
ERE long around our island home Tempestuous winds shall blow; Ships safe to-day, far, far away May then to pieces go.
Would yon one seaman should perish, On rock or Goodwin Sand, For lack of a "Royal" Life-boat,...
Category: Poetry
A Dinghy
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 16th of April, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a dinghy with two boys on board was drifting out to sea off Rhoscolyn Island. At 12.10 the life-boat St.
Cybi,...
Edith
MOELPRE, ANGLESEY.—The schooner Edith, of Newry, bound from Liverpool for Drogheda, co. Louth, with coal, was lying in the outer roads while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, on the 25th...
Lady Molly
FOUR WOMEN AND A DOG TAKEN OFF YACHT Margate, Kent. At 7.47 on the evening of the 8th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired two distress signals off Botany Bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Breadwinner
Dover, Kent.—At 12.43 in the morn- ing, on the 6th of April, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the S.S. Shepperton Ferry had wirelessed that a fishing vessel had broken down two and a quarter miles south-east of the South Goodwin...
Bolivar
NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half...