Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat anchored off Colne Point was dragging her anchor and showing a distress signal at the mast-head. The...
Three RNLI lifesavers were recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2012. Retired Newhaven Coxswain Ian Johns received an MBE for services to maritime safety. Ian was on the lifeboat crew for 37 years.
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Sheringham, Norfolk. At 7.15 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing boats were at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Foresters Centenary was...
Search for swimmer FOR WHITBY'S 1983 lifeboat day, Saturday August 6, the weather was fine and clear with little wind and calm water.
Just before 1500 the lifeboat crew were assembling aboard the 44ft Waveney relief...
A MOST important adjunct to a coast life- boat is a carriage. It is not sufficient that the boat herself be of a superior description, capable of contending safely and successfully with that element in which her work has to be performed,...
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EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...
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The Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival took place in June, with 23 groups from around Europe taking part. The event is one of the world’s biggest maritime music festivals, and one of its main aims is to raise money for the...
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HAPPY MEMORIES
RESCUE IN WARTIME
A scenic seascape in our last issue got one reader thinking of childhood holidays – and old RNLI friends
The lovely photograph of Ballycotton Harbour on page 23 of the summer...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 19th of May, 1955, Lloyd's agent asked if the life-boat would put out to the S.S. Richmond Queen and land four men and the skipper's wife from the S.S. Zor, of...
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