1004 the Atlantic 21 ILB Blue Peter II launched on service with David Jones as helmsman and John Askew and Simon Dubberley as crew; the honorary medical adviser, Dr Jack Dubberley, also embarked.
The sky was overcast with a...
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News ‘A treasure trove!’ This is just one glowing comment from a visitor to the RNLI’s new Henry Blogg museum in Cromer – and now ‘official’ accolades have followed.
The building's contemporary design follows the curve...
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National appeal day The RNLI is launching a national appeal day to be held every year, beginning on 8 June 2005 - Save our Soles or SOS day.
Throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland, people at work, school or home will be...
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Annual Meetings : Station*.
CLACTON.—On 2Ist February, Dr.
J. Coxhead Cook, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ended 3Qth September, 1924, showed that £200 had been collected...
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Newhaven, Sussex.—At 3.10 P.M. on the 30th August a message was received reporting that a Government transport had been in collision off Rottingdean, i and was in" a sinking condition. A light S. W. breeze was blowing at the time and |...
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Lifeboat station histories The History of the Sheerness Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This, the latest of the author's comprehensive booklets on RNLI stations, was published in late 1996 when Sheerness...
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The History of the Blyth and Cambois Lifeboats The History of the Eyemouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris Published by the author - prices in text Jeff Morris, the Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society continues his self-imposed...
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Runswick, Yorkshire.—At about 1.45 P.M. on the 20th August a small sailing yacht, with one man on board, was seen trying to make Staithes harbour.
A gale was blowing from the south-west.
After several...
OWNER OVERBOARD Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 11.56 p.m. on 2gth July, 1965, two distress flares were reported to have been seen to the north-east and at three minutes after midnight on the 3oth the life-boat Louise Stephens was...