LADY CRATHORNE named the new Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season at a ceremony at the life-boat house on the 28th of May, 1960. The life-boat, which is one of the 47-feet Watson type, was pro- vided out of legacies from the late...
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OCTOBER 17TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the morning the coastguard reported that two vessels were ashore off Whitburn.
A moderate breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough...
FILEY, YOBKSHIBE.— Several fishing-boats having been overtaken by a strong S.E. wind and squally weather on the 24th November, the Eollon the Second Life-boat was launched at 10.30 A.M. and accompanied the boats safely ashore..
Mrs Phyl Cleare stands alongside Swanage's new D class lifeboat during the naming ceremony for the lifeboat. A previous D class funded by Mrs Cleare is in the relief fleet and had conducted trials at the station prior to the allocation... - View image in PDF
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Bunk holiday fund raising activities raised £757 for the New Brighton lifeboat station. Patrons and staff of the Travellers Rest public house and Reflections on Marine Promenade, New Brighton, had an added treat when the inshore... - View image in PDF
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On the 16th January the Life-boat Andrew Pickard was again called out on service while a whole gale of wind was blowing from the S.E. The ketch Marys, of Aberystwith, while running for Hantoon Channel, having lost her mainsail, and showing...
LIZARD.—The Life-boat Edmund and Fanny, stationed at Folpear, was launched at midnight on the 10th of March, during a moderate gale from the S.S.E. and a heavy ground swell, and rescued the crewof seventeen men from the barque Lady Dufferin,...
Hastings' 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Fairlight, with Coxswain Frederick White at the helm, tows the Dutch yacht Octopus towards Rye Harbour during a force 6 south-south-easterly gale and in rough seas on July 19, 1987. Rye Harbour's... - View image in PDF
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Above: Martin Woodward (right), coxswain of Bembridge lifeboat, receiving the donation raised at The Return of May Madness'. In the background is the oil painting 'Cobweb' by James Bartholomew, which was painted specifically for... - View image in PDF
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St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat and S.S. Punta (see page 158). - View image in PDF
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