On the morning of the 16th Nov., the services of the tubular Life-boat were re- quired by a large barque ashore on the West Middle Line. She proceeded out at once, and, at the request of the master, remained alongside the stranded vessel,...
MAY 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast, bound from the Tyne to Poole, with coal, ran ashore in foggy weather about two miles north of Flamborough. The call for a life-boat was...
Thursday, 16th May, 1935.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Captain Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, Bt., C.B., D.S.O., R.N.V.R., a member of the committee of management.
Received...
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Walmer.Kent.—On the 6th of August, 1954, two boys walked round the cliff from St. Margaret's to Kingsdown, but were trapped by the tide at Kingsdown. They both tried to swim round the cliff, but one of them got into difficulties. His...
Launches 22. Lives rescued 18.
AUGUST 5TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 4.15 A.M. the naval officer in command at Appledore said that the life-boat was wanted four miles W.N.W. from Hartland Point, and the...
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JUNE 14TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the men had been rescued by minesweepers and R.A.F. rescue boats. - Rewards, £26 14s. 3d..
APRIL 23RD. - RAMSGATE, WALMER, AND MARGATE, KENT. A steamer had been mined and had sunk off the North Foreland, but her crew were taken off by naval vessels. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £5 3s. ; Walmer £14 12s. 6d. ; Margate, £9 8s...
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 6.15 on the evening of the 5th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Maughold Head and later asked for the life-boat. At 6.35 the life-boat Frank and...