Exmouth Helmsman Roger Jackson thought he would never launch a lifeboat again. But now four young men owe him their lives
Exmouth is a popular seaside destination but on the afternoon of 23...
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Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 26th of April, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the S.S. Emsworth had wirelessed for the help of the life-boat. She had picked up a man from the yacht Finetta, of Southampton. The...
THE annual Shipping Festival Service in Winchester Cathedral, organised by the Southampton Master Marin- ers Club, was held on the 25th of June. The Archbishop of Canterbury preached, and among those taking part in the service were the...
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Several life-boats have been to the help of sections of the great invasion port, built at Arroraanches on the coast of Normandy, when they were being towed to Fiance, Dungeness took out a relief crew and food to a "phoenix", or...
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Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the afternoon of the 16th February the coxswainreceived a message from the coastguard that a steamer with her engines broken down, about a mile north of the Longship lighthouse, wanted help. She was the Danish...
NOVEMBER 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.10 in the afternoon a steamer had been seen to go ashore on the Goodwin Sands. A moderate north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
Coaster founders AN ICELANDIC COASTER, Tungufoss, in distress four miles south of Longships Lighthouse, was reported by Land's End Coastguard to the deputy launching authority of Sennen Cove lifeboatstation at 2027 on Saturday September...
Barmoutb, Merionethshire. — At three in the afternoon on the 3rd of October, 1950, the coxswain and others saw the launch Golden Hind, of Plymouth, approaching Barmouth Bar. There was a heavy sea, with a strong south- westerly breeze blowing...
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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GORLESTON.—At 11.30 P.M., on the 4th May, guns were fired by the St. Nicholas Lightship, in response to which the Lifeboat Leicester immediately put off and proceeded to the Scroby Sand. The weather at the time was thick, with rain; the wind...