At 2.30 A.M. on the 12th April the Coast- guard at Shoeburyness reported that the Nore Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 were assembled and the boat proceeded to the Light-vessel,...
THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop "Branches in the iollowmg places in the South-east and Southwest of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, eitherpersonally or...
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WRECKAGE OF AIRCRAFT FOUND AND LANDED Buckle, Banffshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 18th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea two miles north-north-east of the...
JULY 13TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. Aircraft had been reported down but nothing could be found. The life-boat was short of her regular crew, but the honorary secretary, Captain A. G. Cole, the district inspector, Commander E. D. Drury, O.B...
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT.
During an air raid a German aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea four or five miles N. by W. of the station, but nothing except a patch of oil could be found.
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At about 4.15 on the morning of the 27th January •during a thick fog a boat with nine men in her landed at Clovelly. They reported that their steamer, the Huddersfield, of Cardiff, was ashore about four miles to the westward with the...
Now replaced by a Motor Life-boat after 24 years' service, on her road-journey of over 250 miles from her Station to the Reserve Fleet at the Institution's Storeyard in London.. - View image in PDF
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Above right. Superintendent of Cowes Base, Cdr Peter Gladwin, (left in photo) and Deputy Superintendent Mike Brinton with an Atlantic 21 ready to go on station. (Photos Bob Kennovin). - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Atlantic 21 Joseph B. Press ranges up alongside the station's Trent class Samarbeta while on Photo by Rick Tomlmson. - View image in PDF
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A YACHTSMAN who bought and con- verted one of the Institution's 35-feet 6-inch life-boats writes of her to the Yachting Monthly.
"Sailing performance is far beyond my expectations. With plate down she never...
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