Aberystwyth lifeboat flag day, August 6, 1973: when the River Rheidol overflowed its banks, flooding a caravan and camping site, the D class inflatable lifeboat, crewed by Gwyn Martin, the station honorary secretary, and Ralph Kenyon,... - View image in PDF
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A team from the Medway branch held its flag day in Strood and Rochester in March, raising £1,122 -a £400 increase on last year.. - View image in PDF
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A number of gifts have been sent in gratitude for victory in Europe.
One was for £100 and another for £200..
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On the 30th December the Tynemouth No. 1 life-boat, the Constance, went off, through a tremendous sea, in consequence of distress signals being shown from a large vessel, which proved to be the ship Lady Carter, of Liverpool. The wind was...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...
Cromer and Sheringham, Norfolk- At 6 p.m. on 30th June, 1968, the honorary secretary of the Cromer lifeboat station was told that a small boat was in difficulties off Sheringham beach. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 6.12....