At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to haul her pots, which were about eight miles to the north. The sea and weather were bad and gradually got worse. The life-boat coxswain was on watch, and at...
Seven-year-old Neil West, of Ravensheud, proudly displays the "Jiin'/l Fix It" budge and Storm Force certificate he received after appearing on Jimmy Savile's popular BBC television programme. Neil wrote to the programme... - View image in PDF
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Engine failure A MESSAGE came from Warden Point Coastguard to Sheerness honorary secretary at 0752 on Monday, May 26, to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down near the outfall buoy and groynes half a mile east of Garrison Point. The...
THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...
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Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.50 in the evening of the 13th of November, 1948, a message was received from Whitehaven that a fishing vessel which had put out from there had not re- turned, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched...
A photograph taken by Mr. L. H. Shelvey, honorary secretary at Walmer, from the life-boat as she was returning from the Goodwin Sands. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Eileen Haw, souvenir secretary of Coventry ladies lifeboat guild from 1984 until 1991. She first joined the guild in 1981 and continued to serve the committee until shortly before her death..
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JAN. 9TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
The Seven Stones Light-vessel fired rockets, but it was found that she was signalling for the Trinity House tender.- Rewards, £21 10s..
JULY 22ND. - EXMOUTH, DEVON. Red flares had been reported, but the naval authorities sent a message that the life-boat was not needed and she was recalled. - Rewards, £13 0S. 6d..
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. A steamer had been reported in collision with a destroyer, but the help of the life-boat was not needed, and she was recalled by wireless. - Rewards, £11 14s.