At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to haul her pots, which were about eight miles to the north. The sea and weather were bad and gradually got worse. The life-boat coxswain was on watch, and at...
Dover, Kent. — About 5.30 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1956, a yacht was seen from the eastern arm of the dock, apparently in difficulties off the Forelands. 'The life-boat Southern Africa put out at...
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.15 in the evening of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea, and at half past six the life-boat Jane Holland, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Torbay, Devon. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man had fallen down to the foot of the cliffs at Sharkham Point. At 12.45 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left...
Torbay, Devon. At 9.29 on the even- ing of the 29th of April, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was on fire off the mouth of the River Dart. At 9.55 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings...
EIGHT NAVAL CADETS TOWED TO SAFETY Salcombe, Devon. At 11.20 p.m. on Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Prawle Point coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Gammon Head and that her crew were...
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 3.20 p.m.
on 5th July, 1964, the coxswain of the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell, which was on a publicity launch with several passengers on board, noticed that a small dinghy with a crew of two was...
Coxswain Murdo Sinclair, of Barra Island in the Outer Hebrides, has been awarded the silver medal for taking the life-boai 4o miles in a southerly gale and rescuing fifteen lives from a steamer which had been wrecked under the cliff* of Skye...
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Councillor K. J. Holland, mayor of Skegness and a former coxswain, and Jack Roughton, chairman of the Lincolnshire appeal, lay foundation stones for Skegness's new lifeboat station. (Photo Bob Lawrence). - View image in PDF
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Caister, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1951, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht was flying distress signals about a mile south-east of Winterton. At 4.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched....