MARCH 13TH. - ST. ABBS, and EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. The Royal Observer Corps saw signals of distress and reported them to the police, who informed the St. Abbs Life-boat station at 2.30 in the afternoon. A whole northerly gale was blowing,...
Of those 3,000 launches 1,000, or a third, have been to the help of aeroplanes which had come down in the sea..
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NEW BRIGHTON.—The tubular Life- boat on this station having become unfit for further service has, in accordance with the wishes of the crew, been replaced by a non-self-righting sailing Life-boat of the Watson type, 43 ft. long and 12 ft. 6...
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Life-boat 70-001, Bristol Channel - At 2.30 p.m. on 23rd January, 1967, the coxswain of the seventy foot life-boat intercepted a radio message that the m.v.
Marilene had broken down and required assistance in a position...
'Every man to the boat and every woman to the rope' used to be the cry at Newbiggin and, as a tribute to the past, for the branch's harbour fete in August the ladies dressed in traditional fisherwomen's costume. With the help... - View image in PDF
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Just as ships on the men emergency of THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
9 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I Victoria 8474 Head Office and works BRENTFORD, MIDDLESEX Canadian Plant: TORONTO Australian Plant: MELBOURNE in distress know...
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Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.30 on the morning of the 13th July, 1961, the honorary secretary was told by a fisher- man who had just come ashore that the sea was becoming rough and several crab boats had not yet returned. In par- ticular...
A telephone message was received at 9.30 P.M. on I the 10th December, reporting that a vessel was driving ashore and was in want of assistance. The rocket appa- ratus was despatched and the Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched. On arrival...
ANOTHER MILESTONE on the path of lifeboat development was passed in May this year when Frank Pen/old Marshall, the 37' Oakley stationed at St Ives, the first of her class to be fitted with radar, successfully passed righting trials and...
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The Saturday Club for deaf and partially hearing children aged 8 to 16, Newport, Isle of Wight, includes many outdoor activities in its programme, and four weeks of special efforts for the RNLI culminated in an exhibition football match... - View image in PDF
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