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In the early hours of the morning Coxswain Malcolm Gray's pager beeped loudly. As he sat up in ^ bed he heard the clock strike four. Momentarily he wondered what on earth was going...
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NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The Fame lighthouses having signalled a ship in distress on the Knavestone Bock, the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 2.45 A.M.
on the 12th July, in a moderate W.N.W.
gale and a...
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...
An earlier photograph of Eric Seal in Eyemouth illustrates the difficult and narrow entrance to the port.. - View image in PDF
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(Left) HM Coastguard, Port Isaac Cliff Rescue Company (including an ILB member, mid right) and East Cornwall Mine Rescue Team, all working together on the cliff, hauled five animals to safety . . .. - View image in PDF
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Rye Harbour station, closed in 1928 after the loss of Mary Stanford and her whole crew of 17, was re-established as an ILB station in 1966.. - View image in PDF
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VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...
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n the fishing cobles went to sea at about 5.45 A.M. on 15th March the weather was misty with a strong swell running.
With the flowing tide the sea increased until, at 8.30 A.M., it was decided to launch the Pulling and...
THURSDAY, 5th October, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
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