DECEMBER 7TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
An outward-bound convoy. under the command of Rear-admiral Ramsey, was passing. A gale was blowing and a drifter, which should have been there to bring ashore the pilots, had not arrived,...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—3rd August, 1938. A boat from H.M.S. Boreas, acting as escort to the Royal Yacht which had their Majesties the King and Queen on board, had been reported adrift, but it was learned...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 2.15 P.M. on the 13th February, 1938, a local fisherman and the coastguard reported that a barge at anchor in East Bay was flying a distress signal. The sea was very rough, with a moderate N.N.E. gale blowing, and snow...
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., speaking at the Mermaid Ball dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, London, in December, when a cheque was presented for over £51,000 by the Royal British Legion for the Solent class life-boat The... - View image in PDF
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Sunderland, Durham.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of March, 1954, the Whitburn police told the coast- guard that three boys were adrift in a punt a mile east of Souter lighthouse.
The coastguard telephoned the life-...
Stranded! Filey's I) class inshore and allweather lifeboats were called to t he rescue of I 'iclima and Michael.
a 25ft llshiiii; \essel aground on rocks at Chimney Hole some two miles \\\ of the station on 9 August...
OCTOBER 18TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 12.20 in the early morning information was received from the naval control at the pier-head that a barrageballoon- drifter and a barge had been driven ashore on the West Shoebury Sands. A S.W...
Thursday, 17th January, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to forward to the South Holland Life-boat Society a message expressing regret and sympathy in connexion with the loss of the...
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Thursday, 15th April, 1937.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Lloyd's collection . . 1,510 3 0 The...
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Berwick-on-Tweed: Old and new exercise together. The 42' Watson lifeboat William and Mary Durham was withdrawn from station to the relief fleet on September 17, 1976, being replaced by an Atlantic 21 ILB.
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