The medallists (I to r): Front row: Helmsman Keith Willacy, Morecambe; Helmsman Eric Ward, Si Ives; Helmsman Alan Forrester, Flint; and Coxswain Michael Berry, St Helier. Second row: Coxswain Charles Hatcher, Blyth; Coxswain!Mechanic Hewitt... - View image in PDF
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At 11.4 p.m. on 4th August, 1966, a vessel was seen flashing a light south of the harbour entrance. There was a fresh north westerly breeze with a moderate sea. The life-boat Kathleen Mary launched at 11.30 at low water and proceeded to the...
Eastbourne, Sussex.—14th June. A young man had gone out in a rowing boat and an unsuccessful all-night search was made. The boat came ashore empty next day.—Rewards, £19 5s..
old Cork Life-belt) of the figure of the Life-boatman which stands on the memorial at Margate to the nine Life-boatmen who were drowned by the capsizing of the surf boat Friend of All Nations, in December, 1897, when going out to the rescue...
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It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...
Category: Obituaries
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — At 2.15 in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel, two miles east of Orfordness, and going north, was flying a signal that an acci- dent had occurred and a doctor was required....
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. On the 1st of January, 1959, the body of a young man from Arranmore, who had been killed in an accident in Wales, was brought to Burtonport, but because of the stormy weather it was not possible to take the...
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1957, the coxswain was told by telephone that a girl bather was being carried out to sea on the ebb tide at the estuary of the Red Wharf Bay River. Fifteen minutes later the...
MAN WITH INJURED HAND LANDED Boulmer, Northumberland. The Tynemouth coastguard inquired at 10.32 on the evening of Wednesday the 18th September, 1963, if it was possible to launch the Boulmer life-boat to land an injured man from the 25-ton...
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...