On the 1st of January, 1961, the Weymouth life-boat towed the motor vessel Vectis Isle, which had a crew of five, into Weymouth harbour. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 46, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 11.38 on the morning of the llth of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a landing craft had reported a fishing vessel in need of help four miles to the southward, and at...
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th March, at about 6.80 P.M., the trawler, Emerald Isle, of Whitehaven, which had been beating about in the bay for about three hours, evidently waiting for water, suddenly made for the harbour mouth, and...
LYTHAM. — On the 22 nd September, during a 8. gale with thick rain squalls, a vessel was observed ashore on Salthouse Bank, and showing signals of distress.
The Life-boat was launched, and on arriving alongside found that...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight: When the 52ft Arun lifeboat Joy and John Wade took Christmas fare to the keepers of The Needles Lighthouse last December, The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of London, Dame Mary Donaldson, was one of those on... - View image in PDF
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COXSWAIN WALTER O. COTTON, who died on the 23rd of May, 1948, at the age of 71, served at four life-boat stations in the Isle of Wight. He began his life-boat service in 1898 as a member of the crew at Brighstone Grange, of which his father...
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Meet the men and women flying the lifesaving flag on the Isle of Man 190 years on ...
Norman Quillin
Ex-Coxswain/Mechanic, Port St Mary<...
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Padstow, Cornwall.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1956, the Trevose Head coastguard rang up to say that the Camelford police had reported a small sailing boat in diffi- culties near Tintagel Point. The no. 1 life-boat Joseph...
The RNLI's Assistant PRO Robin Sharp visited the Isle of Man, the Institution's 'ancestral home' and examined how the island's lifeboat service is being adapted to the new generation of lifeboats… At could be said that...
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