SEPTEMBER 6TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £4 16s. 6d..
FEBRUARY 3RD. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
An Admiralty trawler had been bombed during an air raid, but she had sunk before the life-boat could reach her, and a naval vessel had picked up three survivors of her crew and the body of...
FEBRUARY 12TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but after an unsuccessful search it was learned that the crew had managed to get ashore near Boston.
- Rewards,...
JULY 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and was signalled by an R.A.F. launch to return to her station. - Rewards, £11 5s..
Coxswain Alan Thomas receives his award from Dame Naomi James. - View image in PDF
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FROM ist July to 3Oth September, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 141 times. On 24 occasions described in chronological order below they were able to rescue people in difficulties.
Southwold, Suffolk. At...
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JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...
JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...
MARCH 2ND. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
An aeroplane had been reported missing, and it was thought that she might have come down at sea, but she had crashed on the beach. - Rewards, £12 9s..
AUGUST 20TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
Men working in a harvest field had reported that they had seen an aeroplane crashing into the sea, but nothing was found and no information of a missing aeroplane could be obtained. -...