JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.26P.M. a message was received from the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station that S.S.
Pitwines had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes eighteen miles south of...
NOVEMBER 16-20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.45 P.M. the coxswain received a message from the Warden Point coastguard that a ship was sinking close to the Mouse Light-vessel. A strong easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
The Saturday Club for deaf and partially hearing children aged 8 to 16, Newport, Isle of Wight, includes many outdoor activities in its programme, and four weeks of special efforts for the RNLI culminated in an exhibition football match... - View image in PDF
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Agnes, schooner, of Llanelly .... 6 Albion, schooner, of Southampton 4 Aldebaran,...
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Burton-on-Trent, September 27, 1986: specially brewed commemorative beer was the unusual souvenir item on sale when Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat. Burton Brewer, was handed over to the station in Burton-on-Trent. The Midlands... - View image in PDF
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22 August 2012: Bembridge lifeboat crew mounted a delicate operation to remove a man with a broken ankle from an oil tanker. The rescue helicopter had been grounded due to heavy fog, so the crew had to stretcher...
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Second Coxswain Keith Bower, Torbay: 'When we got down off the shore a little bit we "tacked", putting the wind first on one bow and then on the other'.. - View image in PDF
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Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 14th of February, 1948, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore in a thick fog to the south-east of the South Stack Light- house, and at 8.32 the motor life-boat A.E.D. was...
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1953, the destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar arrived off St.
Helier, anchored one mile south-south- west of Elizabeth Castle and landed one hundred and fifty libertymen.<...
Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 5.15 in the morning of the 13th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, information was re- ceived that a steamer was on the rocks to the south of the East Pier, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth was...