WHEN Second Coxswain Stanley Winter retired from the service in 1954 a family record of 100 years' association with the Newhaven life-boat was inter- rupted. In 1854 Second Coxswain Winter's grandfather became a member of the crew...
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Coxswain Joe Martin of Hastings was awarded his town's highest honour when, on October 31, 1984, at a civic ceremony he was presented with The Order of 1066.
Mayor of Hastings, Councillor R. Saunders, praised Joe... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 9TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
Information was received through the coastguard at 12.15 P.M. that the lifeboat might be needed. Half a gale was blowing from the east, with a rough sea, and the weather was thick. Then...
BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—At about 2.30 .A.M. on the 17th January a vessel was sighted coming into the bay.
The weather was foggy, the sea rough and a strong breeze was blowing from the S.S.W. At 3 o'clock she sent up...
SOME years ago reference was made in The Life-boat to letters which had been received from the Gold Coast, in one of which the writer, evidently under the impression that the Institution was a general stores, asked for its catalogues, and...
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(See Diagrams on next page.) The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the...
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ALDBOROUGH.—Signal guns having been fired from the Shipwash Sands on the 8th April during a strong N.N.W. wind, increasing to a gate, very squally weather and a heavy sea, the Life-boat George Hounsfidd was promptly launched at 12.30 P.M....
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1955, the Coast Life-saving Service at Came rang- up to say that a steamer had gone aground at Collough Rock near Carnesore Point and had sig- nalled for help....
AN hour's programme on the Life-boat Service was broadcast by the B.B.C.
in its Home Service on- Sunday, the •23rd of November, under the title "On Life-saving Service." It told the story of the Service from...
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 52ft Arun lifeboat Joy and John Wade returning to station on Saturday March 29. She had launched to go to the help of a Nonvegian cargo vessel Germa Geisha in difficulties about nine miles south east of St... - View image in PDF
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