The Tamar class is the RNLI’s newest and most sophisticated all-weather lifeboat, and its roll out continues. This year, Ireland’s first Tamar arrives at Kilmore Quay. Bembridge and Shoreham Harbour are also on the 2010 Tamar list and, in...
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WALTON - ON - THE - NAZE. — Guns and rockets, indicating that a vessel was in distress, having been fired on the 10th November, the Life-boat Honourable Artil-lery Company was launched at 4.38 P.M., and proceeded under oars to the Sunk Light...
At 4.35 A.M. on the 4th January a telephone message was received from the South- end coastguard that the trawler Nor- mandie had reported a vessel firing rockets one or two miles north of the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse, where very...
At 3.40 P.M.
on the 19th May a telephone message was received at the pierhead from Canvey "Island that the small yacht Squib II, of Westcliff, had capsized about half a mile from the shore. Her crew of two were...
MRS. APPENNEA GREEN, of Clapham, who died at the beginning of August, at the age of 82, was one of the most enthusiastic and successful honorary secretaries whom the Institution has ever had. She started the Clapham Branch in 1931, with a...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 5.10 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the local motor boat Jill had broken from her moorings in Holland Gap with no one on board, and was in danger of being smashed...
At 10.34 p.m. on 19th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted three to four miles south south east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 10.55.
It was two...
JULY 25TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. At 12.15 in the morning distress signals were burned by the motor yacht Mary Bowers, of Chichester, which had gone ashore on Mangeuse Rocks shortly after leaving St. Helier Harbour. She had six onboard. The...
GREAT YARMOUTH.—At 11 A.M. on the 30th Jan., during a strong gale at N.W., vessel was observed to go ashore on the South Soroby Sands, in consequence of sudden shift of wind. The No. 1 Life-boat, the Mark Lane, was launched and proceeded to...
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy...