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A roaring success
The Bikers Cove, neighbours and friends of RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station, hosted a custom bike show at the end of July – and it was certainly a 'triumph'. Over 400 bikers from all over...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Witham and District branch, Essex, held its 1982 house to house collection in July. When the box of one of its supporters, Mr B. Tebbutt of Coggershall, was opened it was found to contain £75.30; that amount was made up on one £10...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division MFV on lee shore AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He...
Category: Services
Letters
The winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat included a plea for help from Shoreline member Nigel Whitfield, who has been dubbed a mere 'land lubber' by his boss, a keen dinghy sailor and diver. Our readers came up trumps for Nigel, and...
Category: Correspondence
Therisa
Early on the morn- ing of the 19th October the coastguard telephoned that a barge, bearing one mile N.E. by N. from Deal coastguard station, was burning flares. A mode- rate W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and squalls of rain. The...
Rowena
Appledore, Devon.—At 11.5 in the morning, on the 17th of January, 1951, a motor barge was seen burning flares off Crow Point. At 11.15 the life-boatViolet Armstrong was launched in a very rough sea with a north-westerly- gale blowing. She...
The Keel Boat Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 18th of March, 1951, the weather got worse, and there was anxiety for the safety of the local keel boat Courage, at sea with a crew of five.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the...
Lady Betty
TWO MOTOR YACHTS BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a motor yacht in difficulties off Pcacehavcn, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched...
A Rowing Boat
Aberdeen. At 10.21 p.m. on 4th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small rowing boat with a crew of two appeared to be in distress about half a mile east of Girdleness lighthouse.
The tide was at...
Scaldis V
Weymouth, Dorset. At 4.48 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares a mile and a half south-south-east of Portland Bill. At 5.10 the life-boat Frank Spiller...