CRIES FOR HELP Poole, Dorset. At 10.45 p.m. on 1st May, 1964, cries for help were heard coming from the harbour from the direction of Stakes buoy. The Institution's rubber dinghy manned by the life-boat's motor mechanic and a member...
Dungeness, Kent. At 3.57 on the morn- ing of the 17th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore at Dunge- ness and making water. When the life- boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 4.25 there...
Selsey, Sussex. At 9.36 on the morning of the 18th of November.
1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the converted Brixham trawler Forseti of Newhaven was ashore off Selsey Bill. At 10.4 it was...
Walmer, Kent.—About 7.40 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1952, the coxswain received a message that a yacht was in distress three miles from the South Goodwin Buoy. The coastguard were informed, and the life-boat Charles Dibdin,...
At eight in the morning of 20th October the No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was launched in a moderate, but increasing, N.N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, as the motor fishing coble Brittania, of Flamborough, had not...
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OWING to the great increase during the last few years in the work of organizing the Institution's appeals, it has been decided to divide the Midlands District, which up to the present has included Ireland and Wales. The Midlands...
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(Below left! The bulk of the Norfolk and Suffolk type and the small internal volume are illustrated by the WTO-built James Leath at the lifeboat collection in Chatham Dockyard.. - View image in PDF
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THE Hythe life-boat crew and their friends gave their third entertainment last February.1 This time it was a revue in four scenes called "Lifeboatania." It began with a representation of a storm and a rescue so realistic that the...
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During foggy but smooth weather on the 6th June, information was received that a trawler had run ashore on the Bell Buoy Shoal, Scroby Sands. The crew of the Mark Lane were promptly assembled and the boat, in tow of a tug, proceeded to the...