In heavy weather the Life- boat John Stuart was launched from this station on the 7th March, and succeeded in saving 7 men from the Hanoverian schooner Dollart..
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.26 p.m. on I9th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian fishing vessel Zeemansblik was aground two miles west by north of St. Catherine's Point. The life-boat The...
Maritime England A YEAR-LONG celebration of the sea is planned for Maritime England 1982 by the English Tourist Board. There may be as many as 2,000 special events put on in different parts of the country for the pleasure of visitors from...
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—When returning home, laden, from the Norwegian fishing grounds, the Aberdeen trawler Abergeldie stranded on the south end of Goswick Sands on 22nd March. Information of her plight was received- from the Coastguard and the Motor Life-boat...
HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM On the 26th January, 1942, the Hartlepool life-boat rescued five of the crew of the S.S. Hawkwood, of London.
LIEUT. WILLIAM H. BENNISON, C.G.M., R.N.V.R., coxswain of the lifeboat, was awarded the gold...
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Left: Alan Tate, superintendent of the Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes. - View image in PDF
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THE night was dark, the tempest roared, The waves ran mountains high: It seemed to every hand on board As if the sea and sky In one commingled mass was blent And welded by the gale, Save where the quiv'ring light'niag rent The...
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Last August Taunton achieved a total of £227 for the RNLI with a 'Mile of Money'. First off the mark was the Mayor, hzre seen laying his coins on the tape . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jack Beale. - View image in PDF
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HRH The Duke of Gloucester at The Padstow Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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HRH The Prince George at The Aldeburgh Inaugural Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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