AUGUST 25TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 1.32 A.M. the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the sea. The weather was calm. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Philpott was launched at 2 A.M. When she was off Ecclesbourne...
APRIL 5TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the motor coble Humility, of Newbiggin, was overdue. She had a crew of three. A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
The image of the RNLI affects almost every aspect of its operation. Without a high profile in the public eye the task of the fundraisers is made more difficult.
Concepts form at an early age, and the way youngsters perceive...
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Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 9th December the wind suddenly became squally, increasing to a gale from the W.
off the land. A large open boat, manned by two men and a boy, and having but one broken oar on board, was swept...
A dredging- barge was in imminent danger of going down near the east end of this harbour during a whole gale of wind on the 9th March, her anchor having dragged and the sea breaking over her. The only hope for her crew of 4 men was the...
Three days afterwards the same Life- boat was also the means of rescuing the crew of 4 men from the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, which, during foggy weather, stranded on the north end of the Horse Bank. When the crew were brought ashore by...
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 13th October, a vessel, which proved to be the trawler Corsair, of Calais, was seen stranded on the Caister shoal. The Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 7.45 and proceeded to the spot. In rounding...
The flat Tran- sit, of Liverpool, whilst bound from Llanddulas to "Widnes with a cargo of limestone, had her sails blown away in a very heavy squall on the 10th December whilst proceeding down the Horse Channel and was rendered help-...
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — About 10.10 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a yacht was observed burning distress signals at Copeland Island, and information was received from the coastguards and police. At 10.35 the life-boat Sir...