DECEMBER 11TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down, but the life-boat was recalled when it was known that the airmen had been saved.
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THE LIFEBOAT Mersey Class lifeboat ON 1183 Lil Cunningham Built: 1W2 Cost: C650.000 Funding: A generous gift Irom Miit Salty Cunningham of Derby in memory of her sister D class lifeboat D-485 Stafford with Rugtlty Built: 1995 Cost. ni.OOO...
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(Below) Ex-Coxswain Robert 'Bobbie' Brunton retired in 1976 after 29 years as a member of Tynemouth lifeboat crew; he was second coxswain from 1953 to 1963, coxswain from 1963 to 1976. At TynemoutH's annual Christmas dinner the... - View image in PDF
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NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—At 2 A.M. on the 27th, the Coastguard reported that a vessel, about six miles to the S.E. of the harbour, was firing signals of distress.
The crew of the Life-boat Michael Henry were assembled and an...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 30th of November, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard reported that the S.S.
Hudson Bay, of London, had signalled that a man on board had fractured a thigh. She...
Engine Trouble AN anticipatory message to the honorary secretary of the Plymouth lifeboat station at 7.56 p.m. on March 14 that the Plymouth fishing boat Farsund was overdue from a fishing trip to the Eddystone lighthouse area led to an...
Helmsman Elisabeth Hostvedt (front), an Atlantic College student from Norway, was the first female RNLI crew member. She is pictured with fellow students about to launch at the Atlantic College slipway in the 1960s. - View image in PDF
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Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. — 15th February, 1938. A report that the s.s.Helen, of Saltvik, Finland, had wirelessed that she was in difficulties had been received and the Lowestoft lifeboat went out. She...
POETPATEICK, WlGTOWNSHIEE and DONAGHADEB, Co. DOWN.—The Port- patrick Motor Life-boat J. and W., and the Donaghadee Motor Life-boat Wil- liam and Laura were both launched on the 13th January to the s.s. Camlough, of Belfast, the...
THREE months at sea, and one on shore; Three months at sea—yet not afloat j Around our home the breakers roar, Yet own we neither ship nor boat.
Rock-based, amid the swirl of foam, The lighthouse stands—it is our...
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