MCH. 15TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 6.12 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that two barges were in need of help to the east of the coastguard station. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
The Christmas break may already seem like a distant memory but readers will know that, while they were tucking into their turkey, many volunteer Lifeboat crews had given up the comfort and safety of home to save the Lives of others in coLd...
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Of 1108 launches during the year 251 were to foreign vessels belonging to eighteen different countries and 608 lives were rescued from them. Never has the Lifeboat Service more faithfully carried out the promise which it made when it was...
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JANUARY 29TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
At 4.30 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress off the coastguard station and needed a tug. The coxswain assembled the life-boat crew and stood...
Shenngham guards the eastern approaches to The Wash, its boathouse squeezed between low cliffs and a steep-to shingle beach. - View image in PDF
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MARCH 2lST. - GIRVAN. AYRSHIRE.
At 9.45 P.M. the police reported that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Turnberry Lighthouse and was showing flares.
The weather was calm but there was a dense fog...
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ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...
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ONE of the most original and successful efforts on behalf of the funds of the Institution was carried out at Bedford on 27th June. It was an historical pageant organised by the Bedford Rotary Club, and was followed by a military tattoo. The...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.50 on the morning of the 10th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen about three miles west-by-north of Rhossilli Head. The position of the flare was later...