JUNE 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that an American Fortress aeroplane had crashed in the sea to the south-east. The life-boatmen had already seen a parachute coming down. A light westerly wind was...
MR. FRANK GARON, the chairman of the Southend-on-Sea branch died on the 29th of July at the age of sixty. A director of the big catering firm of Garons in Southend, he was another of the many busy men who yet are able to give much of their...
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Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...
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Littlestone-on-Sea lifeboat station, Romney Marsh in Kent, has for many years sold souvenirs from a table in the boathouse; now it has a new souvenir shop. It was designed by Ken Boardman (I), the station honorary secretary, and Crew Member... - View image in PDF
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IN July, 1905, as will be seen by reference to the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for November, 1905, page 551, it was decided that three Life-boats should be installed with petrol motors, viz., Walton-on-the-Naze, Norfolk and Suffolk type, 43 ft. by 12...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 26th of November, 1952, it was learnt that an air sea rescue launch in North Bay had parted one mooring, and that the other was badly frayed. She had no crew aboard, and the R...
A LITTLE while ago a woman visitor at one of the life-boat stations was talking one evening to the motor mechanic near the life-boathouse. As they talked they watched an aeroplane passing overhead. It was just above them when the life-boat...
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