Eleven-hourservice in Force 11 winds saves six Coxswain David Mason could hardly have known how many 'firsts' he was going to notch up when he took Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new Trent class to sea at 0500 on 29...
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
HARWICH, ESSEX ; POLKERRIS and FOWEY, CORNWALL BULL BAY, ANGLESEY ; TROON and PORT ERROLL, SCOTLAND. — It having been found necessary to replace the Life-boats at these stations by new boats, the crews were as usual called upon to furnish...
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The 82-year-old Bedford, one of the world's oldest life-boats, being prepared last year for transport from her shed at South Shields, Co. Durham, to the Exeter museum.. - View image in PDF
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Date Station 1960 Jan. 1 Scarborough ..
„ 2 Walton and Frinton „ 3 Kilmore „ 13 Filey ..
„ 16 Whitby „ 17 Swanage „ 19 Southend-on-Sea 20 Arklow „ 20 Tynemouth ..
„ 21 Gal way Bay...
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Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, who in 1967 gave the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed in memory of her late husband, Mr. A.
E. Reed, of Stamford, Lincolnshire (THE LIFE-BOAT, September, 1967),...
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SEPTEMBER 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and on fire off Worthing Pier, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £4 1s..
AUGUST 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in the estuary of the River Dee, but nothing was found. - Rewards : New Brighton, £9 5s.; Hoylake, £17 10s..
At 3.55 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Seaham life-boat station, Captain R. Hudson, was informed by the coast- guard that, according to a report from a local fisherman, a small boat was still out and...
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