SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WESTON - SUPERMARE SOMERSET. At 5.30 in the afternoon a message came from the Croyde coastguard, which he had received from the S.S.
Basiris, that a steamer was ashore on Weston Sands. A north-north-west...
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.45 on the night of the 24th of March, 1949, the coastguard reported that a small vessel was burning flares about two miles south-west of the harbour. The life- boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 8.58 in a...
Two life-boats 70- foot in length, which will be larger than any at present in the Institution's service, are to be built by Messrs. Yarrow and Company Ltd.
in Scotstoun, Glasgow. Both will be constructed in steel, one...
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Lowestoft: A trimaran on passage from Wells to Ramsgate was reported making water fast on Sunday August 6. Lowestoft's 47ft Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick launched at 0554 and reached the casualty at 0750. Three people were taken... - View image in PDF
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Bottom left Lifeboat crew member m black oilskins, sou'wester and Captain Ward's cork lifejacket. - View image in PDF
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JUNE 2ND. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
Just before midnight on the 1st of June information was received that a boat had disappeared. The fishing boat Pride of Lambay, of Dublin, had towed a boat to Arklow and had been left tied...
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 5.36 in the evening of the 15th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat seemed to be in trouble in Cambois Bay, and at 5.50 the life-boat Winston Churchill, Civil Service No. 8 was launched....
Front Row (left to right) : Coxswain Barnes, of Selsey and Bognor, Mrs. Polly Donkin, of Cullercoats, Coxswain Fenton, of St. Andrews, and Mr. John Cahill. of Tralee. Back Row : Coxswain Hood, of Hartlepool, Mr. J, J. Davies, Sen., Bowman of... - View image in PDF
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IT is THE GLORY of St Paul's that it can embrace all the grandeur of national occasion and all the simplicity and friendliness of a parish service. The RNLI could have had no happier setting for its 150th anniversary service of...
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In the five years, eight months and six days of war, from September 3rd., 1939, to May 8th., 1945, the life-boats of the Institution were launched to the help of ships and aeroplanes in distress 3760 times and rescued from them 6376 lives....
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