During a whole N.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the morning of the 12th January the St. Nicholas Light-vessel commenced to fire signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were promptly assembled and at 7 A.M....
On .the night of the 30th this life- boat again put off. The ship Lillies, with 1,600 tons of coals on board, be- longing to St. John's, New Brunswick, and bound from Liverpool to Bombay, showed signals of distress off Fleetwood, when...
Tommy Taylor aged 85 in April has been a member of the Gravesend branch ] committee for over 25 years and box secretary for over 10 years.
This picture was taken at a film night, given by John Gamble, RNLI organiser for... - View image in PDF
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25 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1963 Issue.
Notes of the Quarter THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the development of life-boat design and in the...
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Mrs. B. E. Ragg, of Kenilworth, is 76 years old and during the four days of the Royal Show last year collected nearly £160. Considering that the weather throughout the show was extremely hot, for a 76-year-old collecting for Jive or six...
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Tower Pier E Class Public Servent Civil Service 44. - View image in PDF
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CREW TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL AGROUND Swanage, Dorset. At 3.9 on the morning of the 10th of March, 1962, the coastguard at St. Aldhelm's Head informed the assistant honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on the rocks under the...
INTERPRETER CAME At 10.45 a.m. on iyth June, 1964, the secretary of the Berwick Infirmary told the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had asked if a boat could land the skipper as she could not enter the harbour on the ebb tide. As no...
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 12.25 P-mon loth May, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the lifeboat could be used to convey an urgent surgical case from Jura Island to Islay, as the weather was too bad for the small ferry...
IT should be of interest to Life-boat workers, particularly those connected with Stations at seaside resorts, to read the following summary of the visitors' book kept at the Ilfracombe Boat-house in the summer of last year. During the...
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