Carol singers were out in force before Christmas. In the London area, members of the Mermaid Committee raised £40.41, and Frances Brace with a group of her friends from Forms 5 and 6 of Godolphin and Latymer School collected £93.46...
Category: Donations
Confused? All those in lifejackets in this picture are not lifeboatmen—in fact, it is quite obvious that they are not even men. They are some of the staff of the Liscard, Wallasey, branch of Marks and Spencer who have helped to raise £1... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sinking fishing boat NITON RADIO advised Solent Coastguard at 2031 on Saturday December30, 1978, that the 42ft fishing vessel New Venture reported to be midway between Nab Tower and Hayling Island had sent a message by VHP that she was...
New birth for Oban lifeboat!Oban's new Trent had been on service for less than three weeks when her services were first officially recognised - by the naming of a baby!baby! The Trent, Mora Edith Macdonald, received her 'award'...
Soon after midnight of the 29th January the night signals of dis- tress of a vessel on the North Sand End, Goodwin Sands, were observed. It was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time.
The Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins...
26th April. A small boat was reported to be driving ashore, but she was not in distress.—Rewards, £4 10s. 6d..
A night rescue operation had its sequel at Portsmouth when the Commanding Officer of a Royal Naval frigate handed over a cheque for £100 to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Frigate, H.M.S. Naiad, was on her way to...
Category: Articles
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 8.30 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Skogaland of Gothenburg, which was 180 miles off Barra, had a sick seaman on board. It was decided to...
Selsey, Sussex - At 6.12 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht three-quarters of a mile west of Bognor pier was signalling for help. The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at 6.24 in a...
Lady launcher passes away It is with sadness that the Lifeboat reports the passing away of Dungeness ‘lady launcher’ Doris Tart (pictured above, front) on 30 April at Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital, aged 85.
Doris lived...
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