THE Worthing station was closed in 1930 when a motor life-boat was sta- tioned at Shoreham Harbour. It had then been open seventy-eight years, and its boats had rescued fifty-eight lives. The boat-house, however, re- mained, and in it the...
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Silver Inkstand.
A SILVER INKSTAND, suitably inscribed, has been awarded to Mr. W. J. BURDEN, who has been honorary secretary of the Teignmouth station for fifty years.
Statuette of a...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1958, a boy told the coxswain that two bathers were making little headway in their efforts to reach the shore a hundred and fifty yards north-north-east of Peveril Point. They...
Hastings, Sussex. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing vessel Valiant had engine trouble and was having difficulty in making the beach at Hastings. At 1.6 the life-boat M.T.C...
A four-day Christmas art exhibition was mounted by Littlehampton branch at the auction rooms of Peter Cheney, the station's chairman and honorary secretary. Fifty-two West Sussex artists exhibited and many pictures and craft goods were... - View image in PDF
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Cromer, and Sheringham, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 2nd April the fishing boats John Robert and White Rose, of Cromer, and Little Madge, of Sheringham, each with a crew of two, put to sea in fine weather. The weather changed, and at about...
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope, in the Orkneys. He has been coxswain since 1900, and during the thirty-three years of his coxswainship the Longhope station has rescued fifty-four lives from shipwreck. He...
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PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1,400 ton coaster Union Star, registered in...
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FOUR RESCUED FROM CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.37 on the night of the 9th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor cruiser was lying in a dangerous position about three quarters of...
Only flare fired A RED FLARE fired from a position about 7 nautical miles south east of Berry Head was reported to Torbay honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 0609 on Wednesday, March 12. The 52' Barnett lifeboat Princess Alexandra of...