Injured boy IN THE EARLY EVENING of Monday May 10, a skin diver, David Morrison, was ashore at Bovisand Beach, 2!/2 miles south east of Plymouth lifeboat station, when he saw a boy trying to attract attention on the opposite side of the bay....
OCTOBER 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A fishing boat was overdue, but she reached the harbour without help. - Rewards, £51 4s. 6d..
IN 1933, for the third tune, an appeal was made to golf clubs to hold a com- petition in aid of the life-boat service.
In 1931 it was made to the principal clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex; in 1932 to the principal clubs in...
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10th August.
Two fishermen reported that they had picked up another fisherman's boat.
The life-boat went out to look for him and found his lobster pots, but no trace of the man.—Rewards, £4 10s....
Lifeboats depend on Dagenite Batteries So can you.
'Dagenite batteries are used extensively by "the RNLI; and they don't take any chances. Isn't this the kind of dependability you want for your car ?...
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AUGUST 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea seventeen miles north of Sheringham, and the crew of four had taken to their rubber boat, but they were picked up by a trawler.
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SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A ship’s boat with seventeen men from a torpedoed steamer had been sighted, but they were picked up by the Barra Head Light-house supply boat which was making her weekly trip to the...
Coxswain William Stephen, of Montrose, died on 16th December last, at the age of sixty-seven. He had been in the service of the Institution for fortyeight years. In 1913 he was appointed Coxswain of the Montrose No. 2 Lifeboat, and then in...
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The Motor Life- boat, H. F. Bailey, put out at 11.5 A.M.
on the llth October, in hazy weather with a smooth sea and moderate S.W.
breeze, as the Haisborough Light-vessel had reported a vessel aground op....
D class, Tyne and X boat rescue fallen climber Holyhead's D class inflatable was called out at 1600 on 21 April to a man who had fallen 90ft from a cliff at North Stack.
The D class was taken through rough, surging 6ft...