3rd December. An aeroplane came down near the shore, but her crew got to safety unaided—Rewards, £11 5s..
FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otmerte.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
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Above. A lovely day for a swim. Excellent weather over the two days made life a little more pleasant for the crews demonstrating righting techniques. Here the air bag on an Atlantic 21 brings her swiftly upright just off the depot quay. D... - View image in PDF
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Night tow AT 2033 on Sunday October 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station was contacted by Falmouth Coastguard and told that a yacht, Talahinna, had reported engine and rigging failure, some five to ten miles north...
Longhope Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and Thurso Second Coxswain Duncan Munro received the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for two separate services on the same stormy day (mentioned in the winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat)....
Decks awash in a near gale, Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat, James and Catherine Macfarlane, tows home the 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster, which had broken down off Tintagel Head. Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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On the 1st December, the coxswain of the North Briton life-boat, and 6 other men, with 2 horses, proceeded at midnight along the coast upwards of fcrar miles in the direction of Gramthorpe Haven, and there found a schooner on the sands, and...
'When we're needed—we're needed! And when we're needed, we'll be there!' THESE WORDS of a Swanage coxswain, logged in the station history, are a promise this little Dorset town has been proud to fulfil. Opening the...
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On the morning of the 18th July the small yacht Damaris, of Lowestoft, left Southwold, with two men aboard, intending to run to Lowestoft, but found the wind and sea too much for her. She tried twice to return to Southwold but failed, and...
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.50 P.M. On the 12th August the coastguard reported that a motor boat with five persons on board was ashore between Blackpool sands and Dartmouth. A gentle S.E.
breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. The...