LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE On 22nd May, 1965, the new life-boat The Doctors, which was on passage to her station at Anstruther from the boatbuilders at Littlehampton, sighted the speed boat Sans Peur broken down one mile and a half east of Dover...
Another safety first for the RNLI: The 52ft Arun which will soon be going on station at Fishguard is the first lifeboat to be fitted with a radar scanner which has been made watertight. During her righting trials at Cowes on May 5, the Arun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FEBRUARY 22ND. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 7 P.M. the police reported distress signals from a fishing boat six miles south of Girvan. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea The motor life-boat Lily Glen - Glasgow...
During a dense fog on the 15th July the pleasure steamer Cambria, of Scarborough, went ashore between Scarborough and Filey with a large number of passengers on board. The weather was fine .and smooth when she started for an after- noon trip...
Walmer, Kent. On 8th August, 1964, members of the life-boat crew saw a sailing dinghy capsize a mile north-northeast of the life-boathouse. The two members of the dinghy's crew were unable to right the boat as her mainsail appeared to be...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 10 a.m. on gth August, 1966, a white cabin cruiser appeared to be in distress aboutfour miles south west of the station.
There was a moderate south westerly breeze with a slight sea. It was low...
The death has occurred of Ex-Coxswain James T. Upperton, of Shoreham, who was 78.
In 1941, as acting coxswain, Mr. Upperton was awarded the silver medal of the Institutions for rescuing 22 people from a minesweeper. Then,...
Category: Obituaries
SWANSEA.—The coxswain of the Lifeboat received a telegram from the harbour master at Port Talbot shortly before 5 P.M. on the 1st December, stating that a vessel was ashore on Port Talbot bar.
The wind was blowing from the...
On the afternoon of the 2nd May the Sandgate coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the fishing boat F.E. 78—the Cereal, of Folkestone—was in difficulties half a mile off Sandgate. A moderate N.E.
gale was blowing,...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 11.47 in the morning, on the 18th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a quarter miles off Nevin Point.
Thirteen minutes later the life-boat...