FILEY, Tuesday January 7, 1986: the weather was worsening with a south-easterly near gale, force 7, and a rough sea when the fishing coble, Opportunity, was seen to break down on the weather side of Filey Brigg.
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Exhausted crew saved at Aldeburgh After 25 hours at sea, the crew of two on the yacht Svea were in real trouble in rough seas near Aldeburgh. The yacht's sails had blown out and the radio was not working. When the Aldeburgh Mersey class...
NOVEMBER 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.50 in the evening, the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands. Ten minutes later the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched, and found the American...
At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February the Coastguard re- j ported that the Girdler Light-vessel was firing distress signals, and shortly after- wards a message was received by wire- less telegraphy from a steamer stating that the Girdler...
On the 12th April the sloop Richard and Elizabeth, of Portsmouth, coal laden, went ashore off Hasborough, on the Norfolk coast. The Life-boat stationed there, the Huddersfield, -was speedily launched through the breakers to her aid.
Left to right. Back row: JAMES WICKHAM, WILLIAM DUGGAN,(Wexford), Coxswain WALTER POWER (Dunmore East), Coxswain ANDREW CUNNINGHAM (Crail), Second Coxswain JAMES S. BROWNLEE {Tynemouth), Second Coxswain RICHARD EGLON (Whitby), GEORGE PEART...
Category: Medals
On the 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was in distress in a strong gale, with a very heavy sea, and the motor life-boat Prince David rescued the crew of six.—Rewards, silver medal, bronze medals, thanks of the...
Penlee, Cornwall.—On the 27th January the s.s. Taycraig was wrecked in Mount's Bay, and her crew of nine were rescued by the Penlee motor lifelifeboat W and S.—Rewards, bronze medal, and an increase in the usual money awards on the...
Walmer, Kent.—On the fourth of January, 1948, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No. 2, rescued 30 lives from the Italian steamer Silvia Onorato. The coxswain was awarded the silver medal for gallantry, the motor mechanic the...
The monumental glass goblet decorated by Miss Honoria Diana Marsh with a picture of the Weston-super-Mare life-boat and illustrated on page 12 of the June number of THE LIFE-BOAT has now been sold by the Institution.
The...
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