The ship's company of RFA Gold Rover, commanded by Captain P. T. Taylor, collected £234 for Weymouth lifeboat station and the money was presented to Coxswain Vic Pitman (1.) by Chief Officer J. Carew at Portland last January. With... - View image in PDF
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Power against the surfsurfer and Redcar lifeboats were tasked to find and rescue the lifeguard who had disappeared in the waves On 15 August 2003 a Royal Life Saving Society lifeguard spotted a surfer in difficulty at Saltbum Beach and...
Salcombe, Devonshire.— The motor trawler Tarascon, of Boulogne, ran on to the rocks in Steeple Cove at about 10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1938. Her wireless was put out of order when she struck, and she had no rockets. There was a very heavy...
FIREMEN TAKEN TO MOTOR BARGE Margate, Kent. At 2.26 on the morning of the 18th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen four and a half miles north-east of the coastguard look-out. The...
COMMANDER S. W. F. BENNETTS, D.S.O.
D.S.C., R.N., has been appointed Chief Inspector of Life-boats to succeed Commander T. G. Michelmore, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.
Commander Bennetts was in command of...
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ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
NORTH DEAL.—Signals having beenfired by the South Sand Head Lightvessel, the crew of the Mary Somervitte Life-boat were summoned on the morning of the 3rd February, and the boat was launched at about 7.10. The weather was thick at the time;...
WINTERTON.—At the termination of a very heavy snowstorm at about 5 P.M. on the 25th January a light and rockets were shown by a vessel which had stranded on the beach about three-quarters of a mile S. of the light-house. The No. 1 Life-boat...
At 3 A.M.
on the 4th February the Life-boat Charlie Medland was called out to the assistance of the schooner Til Away, of Fowey, which was in distress about two miles N.E. of Mumbles Head, and making signals of distress....
At 9.5 P.M. on the 2nd March the life-boat watchman reported that a steamer had drifted ashore on the Inner Binks. She was in a dangerous position, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched. A light, but freshening...