AMBULANCE CALL WHEN on 16th January, 1972, a Russian fish factory ship, anchored 30 miles west of Guernsey, requested assistance to take off a sick man requiring hospital treatment, the St. Peter Port, Guernsey, life-boat went...
Swanage's Mersey class Robert Charles Brown, the lifeboat involved in a long service to a yacht off St Catherine's Point which led to Coxswain Chris Haw's Thanks on Vellum.. - View image in PDF
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, visited W aimer lifeboat station on Sunday October 18, 1981, where he was taken out for a trip in the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat The Hampshire Rose.
Before going aboard he met... - View image in PDF
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GORLESTON.—Two runaway apprentices, belonging to Ramsgate vessels, put to sea in the shrimp trawler Young Robert, of Yarmouth, intending to proceed to Grimsby, early on the morning of the 16th March. The weather was thick, with rain, the...
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 8.25 a.m.
on :8th April, 1967, it was noted that the Sheringham crab boats were at sea and conditions were deteriorating rapidly.
The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows...
Two life - boat stations celebrated their centenaries in 1938: Dover, Kent, and Wexford and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. In each case a vellum was presented by the Institu- tion, signed by the H.R.H. Duke of Kent, K.G., as President,...
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The Plymouth Life-Boat Robert and Marcella Beck at Sea. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Robert Cross of the Humber Silver and Bronze Medallist. - View image in PDF
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Above: Whitby's restored pulling and sailing lifeboat, Robert & Ellen Robson, is launched from an original carnage for the first time in over 40 years to great applause from the large gathered crowd.. - View image in PDF
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On the 19th September four fishing boats which had left har- bour early in the morning were seen to be in trouble five or six miles north of the harbour. A moderate S.S.E. gale had sprung up, bringing a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor...