Visit to Clovelly: Rudolf Graf meets once again members of the crew who rescued him from the Bristol Channel after his Heinkel bomber had been shot down. (I. to r.) Ex- Mechanic Charles Shackson, ex-Bowman Oscar Abbott, ex-German Airman... - View image in PDF
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Photograph above was taken during capsize and righting exercise. The crew, clear of the Atlantic 21 but attached to her by lifeline, have pulled the activating cord, gas has been released into buoyancy bag and the boat is righting. Note... - View image in PDF
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7 a.m.
on i8th August, 1965, a yacht was reported ashore at Sgeir Cailleach. At 7.15 the lifeboat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was launched with the second coxswain in charge, in a south-westerly gale...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 14th of September, 1952, the coastguard reported that the S.S. Kylemore, of Limerick, which was one and a half miles off Holyhead, had a sick man on board and had asked for a doctor. At...
Fundraising is never a drag for Bude lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
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Hadrien Dean - Bridlington lifeboat station Assistant Tractor Driver.
Category: Obituaries
Dover, Kent.—At 4.20 on the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1955, Lloyds signal station reported that a whaler, with five boys from Dover College oil board, which had a dinghy in tow with three boys on board, had been blown out of Dover...
ABERYSTWYTH.—On the 27th November, intelligence being received that 3 young men in a fishing-boat had been blown out to sea and were in great peril, the Lifeboat Lady Haberfield proceeded in search, and found the boat about 8 miles from the...
LIZARD.—On the 15th June the Lifeboat proceeded to the aid of the brig Scotscraig, of Dundee, which had grounded directly below the Lizard lighthouses during a thick fog. After some hours' labour the vessel was extricated from her...