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Trapped_men rescued from pier supports Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that a person was trapped on a narrow ledge under Eastbourne Pier it was...
Santa Anna
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Lymington police that a small boat, the Santa Anna, had capsized off Hurst Castle. Efforts...
Prelude
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 4.37 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that workmen from British Rail had reported sighting a red flare, possibly outside the breakwater. At 4.39 the coastguard sighted a white...
Early Mist
Workington, Cumberland. At 10.15 on the night of the 4th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Early Mist, which was fishing south of the Tank buoy, had not returned. She had been due back some...
Milestone (L)' the Duke of Kent Meets Crew Members Who Had Themselves Built Their Boathouse; They Are Introduced By Senior Crew Member Henry Slade Photogra
milestone (/.).' The Duke of Kent meets crew members who had themselves built their boathouse; they are introduced by Senior Crew Member Henry Slade. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Folkestone Herald. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Card Collecting: Some Notes on Charitable People. By a New Life-Boat Worker
I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...
Category: Donations
Wessex Har Mk 5 from Hms Daedalus Lee-On-The-Solent Piloted By Lt Kay Colborne on Exercise With Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour) Atlantic 21 Guide Friendshi
Wessex HAR Mk 5 from HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-the-Solent, piloted by Lt Kay Colborne on exercise with Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour) Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II. In command of the ILB is Helmsman Adrian West, and with him are Crew Members... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Line Throwing Gun at Naval Display
A TOURNAMENT and Display, organized by the Naval, Military and Air Force authorities at Portsmouth, was held on Southsea Common during the first fort- night of August. It was on the lines of the Naval and Military Tournament at Olympia, and...
Category: Articles
Sybil, of Yarmouth
The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day, 1872.
The...
A Boat
Weston-super-Mare: On Wednesday July 25, 1984, the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Weston Centenary, was on stand-by for the town's air day. She was waiting to carry out a helicopter lift demonstration when a crew...