STAYING IN TOUCH Are you a former RNLI station volunteer or staff member? The RNLI Family association can help you keep in touch if you are no longer so actively involved. When you join you’ll get a membership pack and two issues a year of...
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DECEMBER 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
During the morning a number of fishing boats put to sea. They were overtaken by a southerly gale, with a very rough sea. Several of the boats returned, but as six were still out at one...
Mrs. Robert Carpenter, who died on 24th April of this year, was one of the founders of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of Brighton and Hove in 1921, and was its first honorary secretary and treasurer. She held that post until 1930, when ill...
Category: Obituaries
Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.28 on the morning of the 19th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that there was a small yacht astern of the Humber lightvessel which needed help.
There was a strong...
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the 1st of August, 1955, the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and District XXX was launched to stand by during a local reg-atta, but at 7.50 in the evening the coastguard reported that four men in a...
Above - Commandant Dheret draws the winning ticket assisted by Julia Fish, Beckie Rose and Stephen Warner, Brittany Femes General Manager. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at...
NOVEMBER 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.15 in the afternoon the police reported that a parachute had come down in the sea off The Commons, Donaghadee, and at 12.45 the Belgian motor life-boat Ministre Anseele, on temporary duty at the...
Appledore, Devon. At 12.45 P-m- on 15th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on Lundy Island had broken his leg.
Arrangements were being made for him to be taken off by helicopter but the...
PROTOTYPE LIFE-BOAT'S FIRST SERVICE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At a quarter to midnight on Tuesday the 17th September, 1963, the Needles coastguard reported to the coxswain that two boys had been missing on Tennyson Down since 5.45 that...