Portrush, Co. Antrim. The coastguard reported at 1.57 a.m. on 23rd June, 1965, that a fishing boat was flashing her navigational lights in Portstewart bay. The life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched at 2.15 with the bowman...
Redcar, Yorkshire. At approximately 9.10 p.m. on i4th June, 1965, the owner of the speedboat Miranda informed the coxswain-mechanic that his boat with two people on board had broken down half a mile north-east of the station and was drifting...
PORT ISAAC, August 8, 1987: two anglers, cut off by the tide when they clambered to remote rocks north of Hole Beach are picked up by Port Isaac's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, earlier alerted by Hartland Coastguards. The alarm was... - View image in PDF
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JULY 13TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. At 9.15 in the evening the Hartland Point coastguard reported a cabin cruiser apparently broken down, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched in a moderate north-westerly wind, with a...
At midnight, on the 25th of July last, the smack, Ann and Catherine, of Barmouth, stranded on the bar off that place, the wind blowing a gale from W. S. W. at the time. At 2 A.M. the Barmouth life- boat, belonging to the National Life-boat...
The R.N.L.I's charter does not make provision for the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charity for this...
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THE 150th anniversary of the founding of the Penzance and Penlee station was celebrated by a dinner held at the Queen's Hotel, Penzance on the 12th of March, 1954. The vellum com- memorating the 150 years service of the station was...
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The Missions to Seamen.
" At the Sign of the Fly ing Angel." By G. A. Gollock. (Longmans, Green & Co. 5s. net.) IT was 107 years ago that Sir William Hillary, in his Life-boat Appeal, wrote of our seamen that...
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OCTOBER 18TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 12.20 in the early morning information was received from the naval control at the pier-head that a barrageballoon- drifter and a barge had been driven ashore on the West Shoebury Sands. A S.W...
IN July, 1948, Coxswain Frederick Upton, of Walmer, recorded a talk for the National Broadcasting System of Ke y York, to be broadcast in America.
"Hullo, America! "This is Freddy Upton, coxswain of the Walmer...
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