TWO YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED Hastings, Sussex. At 12.15 p.m. on Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the skipper of the fishing vessel Rose that a small sailing dinghy had apparently capsized and that there was the body of...
Mr Coates stops for a well-earned rest and a bite to eat on his 55-mile walk along the Nidderdale Way.. - View image in PDF
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At. 1.30 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, a dinghy was seen in difficulties in the Rock Channel. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings at 1.45 and proceeded in a strong south south easterly wind and a rough sea. It was two hours before...
JULY 25TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A small rowing boat was drifting out with a boy in it, but before the life-boat arrived it was found by a motor boat. The boy was exhausted and, after he had been given water and chocolate from the life-boat, the...
Sheringham and Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, a hotel porter told the Sheringham life-boat station that he had seen red rockets off Weybourne.
Four minutes later the Cromer coast- guard...
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 6.30 p.m. on loth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat with two people on board had been sighted in difficulties 150 yards off shore. The honorary secretary and the mechanic used the...
FEBRUARY 11TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
The Belgian steamer Persier, of Antwerp, had been sunk by enemy action four miles north of the Eddystone, but the life-boat was re-called by wireless by the naval authorities. In the early...
(Above) A carvel built 18ft launch takes shape for the RNLI, and. - View image in PDF
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A sight for sore eyes: Martin gains control of the Nephele. - View image in PDF
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(Right) The ceremony over, Sir Alec goes aboard for a tour of the harbour.. - View image in PDF
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