NOVEMBER MEETING WALMER, KENT. Shortly after 6 in the evening of the 17th August, 1941, a British Beaufort bomber crashed into the sea between Kingsdown and Walmer, some 400 yards off shore. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Category: Services
On the afternoon of the 15th, the gale then blowing very heavily, accompanied by squalls of rain, a vessel was seen driftii; g towards the shore at Donna Nook, which soon afterwards struck on the Hale Sand. The alarm was given at the...
DURING THE EVENING of Tuesday July 28, 1981, Blackpool's D class inflatable lifeboat had been out on service, searching for what a man on shore had reported might be an upturned boat out to sea.
Nothing had been found...
THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...
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MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...
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NORTH DEAL AND WALMER.—On the night of the 4th March the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville, and the Walmer Lifeboat Civil Service No. 4, were launched to the assistance of the s.s.' Waesland, of and for Antwerp, from New York, with a...
The Mercedes-Benz drawbar complete with trailer, at Poole's depot quay, dwarfs the Trent class lifeboat in the background with its exceptional span.. - View image in PDF
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The Foresters society celebrates its 135th year in 2009, and has chosen to support the RNLI, setting a fundraising target of £135,000.
Foresters provides financial products like insurance policies and savings plans...
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The Life-boat George and Jane Walker was launched at 9.30 A.M. on 13th December to the assistance of eight of the large fishing cobles which had been overtaken by a S.E. gale when at sea.
The service occupied three hours,...
Ox the 30th September the Teosmouth Cardwcll was quickly on the Move. They Motor Life-boat went to the help of a Manned the Boat Beautifull They went . ... , , . , i-i through the surf to the off side. They...
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