New Brighton, Cheshire - At 9.55 p.m. on 2nd July, 1966, two dinghies were stranded off Guinea Gap. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett was launched at 10.10 in a light west-south-westerly wind and a smooth sea. It was rour hours after lew water...
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News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Rescues from around the country including award winning rescues The Annual Meetings 2000 14 The Chairman reports on another very successful year plus awards to crews...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.11 a.m. on ist November, 1965, the motor vessel Clarity was reported to be dragging her anchor and running aground half-amile west of No. 4 Sea Reach buoy. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30)...
Margate, Kent.—13th July, 1939.
All aeroplane was reported as having come down in the sea a few miles out, but though the life-boat searched over a wide area she could find nothing.— Rewards, £6 4*..
Appledore, Devon.—The ketch Ceres, of Bude, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of slag on the 24th November, That night, when in Croyde bay, she sprang a bad leak, and foundered. Her crew of two men were rescued.—Rewards, £19 12*. (For...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—3rd August, 1938. A boat from H.M.S. Boreas, acting as escort to the Royal Yacht which had their Majesties the King and Queen on board, had been reported adrift, but it was learned...
August 1983 Mrs E. Horry, a president of Skegness ladies' guild since 1974 and chairman from 1961 to 1973; she had been a founder member of the guild in 1960 after serving for a number of years as a member of Skegness station branch...
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Mrs Margaret (Peg) Braithwaite MBE, president of the Barrow ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Braithwaite has been a member of the guild since 1969 and became president in 1994. She was awarded an MBE in 1984..
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Mrs Dorothy Ewart, vice president of the Dover ladies lifeboat guild from 1981 until her death in her 97th year. Mrs Ewart was a vice chairman from 1965 to 1974 and chairman from 1974 to 1981. She was awarded the silver badge in...
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