Weymouth lifeboat craw were conducting a man overboard exercise on Sunday 19 May 2002 when an unexpected guest came along to land a helping flipper.
Randy the dolphin is a popular local celebrity in the area and appeared...
MOTOR YACHT WITHOUT FUEL Selsey, Sussex.—-At 4.5 in the morning of the 31st of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a motor yacht, short of fuel and moored to the stern of the Owers Light-vessel, needed help, and the- motor...
OCT. 26TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
- At 10.45 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the fishing coble Humility, of Newbiggin, was out.
A strong northerly breeze was blowing, with a...
FURTHER details for a midnight matinee to be held in the Spring at the Victoria Palace, London, will be included in the January, 1973, edition of THE LIFE-BOAT. The event is being run by the Central London Women's Committee under the...
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Torbay, Devon. — 10th July. A motor boat had not returned when expected, but she had been picked up by a steamer.—Rewards, £10 18s..
Padraic Dillane With deep regret we report that Coxswain Padraic Dillane of the Aran Islands lifeboat died recently following a short illness.
A greatly respected and much loved member of the local community, Padraic first...
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Contents Volume XLIX Number 495 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI RNLI News.
Lifeboat Services.
Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National...
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Horses pull a fully manned pulling and sailing lifeboat through the streets during an early Lifeboat Saturday parade. The exact location is unknown.. - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3 P.M. on the 28th February the coastguard reported that a steam drifter, in tow of another drifter and a tug, had parted her towing hawser and was drifting rapidly on to North...
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.50 on the morning of the 28th of May, 1953, a retired fisherman told the life-boat coxswain that he had heard on his wireless set a message from the fishing boat May Lily, of liridlington, which had broken down...