Falmouth, Cornwall - At 5.3 p.m. on 7th July, 1967, it was learnt that the sailing dinghy Dolphin was missing on passage from Port Navas to Restronquet.
The life-boat Constance and Crawford Conybeare, which had launched...
Coxswain Peter Bisson of St Peter Port joined the lifeboat crew in 1980 and became second coxswain in 1984 before being appointed coxswain in 1986. Together with his fellow crew members he was awarded a bronze medal in 1981 for the rescue of... - View image in PDF
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AUG. 6TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.10 P.M.. the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was...
AUG. 9TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
Shortly before six in the evening information was received through the coastguard that the sailing yacht Annie Alice, of Port Erin, had been making signals for help about seven miles to the...
A YACHT RACE which never finished because there was not enough wind has brought five krugerrands, with a value of over £1,000, for the RNLI. Peter de Savary, chairman of the British syndicate entering the yacht Victory in the 1983...
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An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, 1853.
THE Committee regret to have to state that the frequency of shipwrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom, during the past twelve...
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Launches 75 Lives rescued 31
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At 4.45 in the afternoon the sailing boat, St. Brendon, of Dungarvan, was sailing round the Black Rock in Dungarvan harbour. She had five on board....
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Lifeboat station histories The Story of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboats (new) The Story of the Exmouth Lifeboats (updated 3rd edition) The Story of the Whitby Lifeboats (updated 3rd edition) all by Jeff Morris published by the...
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Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
Construction b*gan last December1 on the first of a. new type of motor life-bo and three mere of the type have been laid down since. They are a development of tfl powerful Watson cabin type af life-boat. 46 feet long and driven by two 40...
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