Selsey: The Lord Mayor, Locum Tenens, Colonel and Alderman Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe attended the re-dedication of the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat RNLB City of London. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 9TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 9.15 in the evening the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the south end of Stroma. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Thomas...
On the 4th January, 1857, the brig Sophie, of Oporto, was driven on shore in a heavy easterly gale between three and four miles south of Hauxley Point, on the Northumberland coast. The Hauxley life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT...
Hauling up the Dagon s crew by the life-saving apparatus. (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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The Launch of the Life-Boat at The Lizard To The SS " Bardic". - View image in PDF
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On the 6th March the schooner James Cuckow, of Ips- wich, went ashore on the Barnard Sand, daring a fresh gale from N.N.E. The life- boat Sisters was promptly launched to the wreck, and was fortunately the means of rescuing the whole of the...
FEBRUARY 22ND. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 11.18 A.M. information was received from the coastguard that the minesweeper Erimo had struck a mine about one and a half miles off the Mumbles, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.E....
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The Y-boat was in action again on 29 July when the Belgian yachtBassurelle was driven ashore south of Irvine Harbour and fired flares which were spotted by the coastguard.
The yacht was fairly close to the station, and in...