18th December. A barge was in distress, but was helped by a motor boat.—Rewards, £3118s. 6d..
APRIL 5TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A Lancaster bomber aeroplane had crashed and her dinghy had overturned with six airmen on board, but a destroyer escorting a passing convoy rescued two of them, and of the other four only two dead bodies were...
DECEMBER 16TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
A naval motor boat had foundered while going ashore from minesweeper H.M.S. Tenby in a gale, but the life-boat, which made a long search, found nothing. Of the eight men in the boat, seven...
Portrait of a lifeboat station WELLS the crew and those who back them up ashore by Campbell MacCallum 1 Coxswain David Cox 2 Second Coxswain Anthony Jordan 3 Offshore lifeboat crew 4 Lt David Case RNVR, station honorary secretary 5 Mrs David... - View image in PDF
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Mr Reg Bray, chairman of Crawley branch.
Mr Bray was associated with the branch for over 20 years, many of them as chairman. He was awarded a silver badge in 1984..
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18 December: Both Eastbourne lifeboats were launched when distress flares were spotted 2 miles south of Beachy Head. A pilot boat that was first on the scene took a lone angler off the ablaze 8.3m motor cruiser...
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At about 9.30 A.M. on the 16th July, a report was received that a fishing-boat was flying signals of distress about four miles from the land. A strong S.S.E. gale pre- | vailed at the time with a rough sea, I and the ...
IT is a far cry from the snows of Russia to tke sands of the Sahara, and as far a cry from the Sahara to the coasts of the British Isles. But experiments are now being made to see if a device originally designed for motor transport over the...
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Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed or Named. No, ENOLAMT). Ft In. Ft. In. NORTHUMBERLAND BERWICK-ON-TWEED - - - 37 - 8 - 12 1888 1 HOLY ISLAND — No. 1 _ - — 34 - 8 3 ...
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