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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had been observed dragging her anchor half a mile off Holland-on-Sea, and that there...
Window of Faith
Window of faith church members are also very proud of the stained glass lifeboat window which was installed during the reconstruction of the church in 1956 after war damage.
It was therefore in August last year that the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
French Medals for Swanage
On the 3ist, December, 1943, the Swanage life-boat rescued three lives from the French nayal launch "Chasseur 5", which had capsized in a heavy sea when escorting a submarine. The men were clinging to her keel. On July...
Category: Articles
Hope
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE.—At about 8 P.M., on the 29th July, the schooner Hope, of Ryde, bound from Middlesborough i» Sidmouth with a cargo of iron and coal, which was lying less than a mile from the beach with two anchors down, parted her...
Tina Louise
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 12.15 p.m. on 2nd July, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel had stranded on the West Barrow sands one and a half miles north west of the Mid-Barrow lightvessel.
The life-boat Sir Godfrey...
A Welsh Pilot's Gallantry
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribafl Aneroid Barometer to Mr.
Lionel Hunt, of Barry Dock, Glamor- ganshire, for his gallantry in rescu- ing two men from drowning. Mr.
Lionel Hunt is a Barry Channel...
Category: Awards
A Fishing Yawl and a Motor Boat
ESCORT FOR YAWL AND MOTOR BOAT Longhope, Orkney. At 10.45 a.m. on Monday the 29th of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the bowman of the life-boat that a small fishing yawl was being towed by a motor boat and they were in...
Sailing in memory
Friends of Andrew Bridge, the 21-year-old skipper of the lost yacht Cheeki Rafiki, set sail in his memory in August to raise money for the RNLI.
The trio took part in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Despite...
Category: Articles
John and Jane
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the 31st of August the Life-boat Star of Hope was launched for practice in a strong S.W.
gale and a moderate sea. Whilst cruising under canvas, signals of distress were seen to be shown by the schooner...
Mischief, of Carnarvon
On 24th January following the life-boat again went out, during a hurricane from the S., to the assistance of the schooner Mischief, of Carnarvon, which had gone ashore on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of the...