Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 5th of December, 1955, a man reported that the barge Will Everard, of London, which had a crew of four, had run ashore near Galloways.
At 11.25 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
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...
This is Red House Lugger in a Force 11 in the North Sea. - View image in PDF
It could have been you. - View image in PDF
Photo Peter Foskett, Assistant Mechanic Lowestott lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Whitby ladies' lifeboat guild have reached their year end having raised £14,000. A major fund raiser was the summer draw, the first prize a painting donatedby Whitby artist Mr John Freeman, who is shown below with members of the... - View image in PDF
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Coverack, Cornwall - At 3.30 p.m.
on loth August, 1967, the honorary medical adviser told the honorary secretary that his services were required at the scene of an accident on Landkidden beach. The life-boat William Taylor...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 10th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Lollipop from Caldy Island, with ten persons on board, was drifting, with a rope round her pro- peller, near rocks...
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Coverack, Cornwall.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported a little girl cut off by the tide in Coverack Bay. A small boat went out but failed to find her.
The Shoreham, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant—she is a 42-foot Watson cabin class type—leaving her slipway during a recent exercise in which she was specially photographed by Mr. J.
Jochimsen of Photo Process... - View image in PDF
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Barrow, Lancashire.—In the evening of the 12th December, 1938, the coastguard at Walney Island reported that a vessel appeared to be ashore about one and a half miles N.W. of Walney lighthouse. She was burning flares.
A...