ON 16th July the King reviewed the fleet at Spithead, as part of the cele- brations of his Silver Jubilee. The motor life-boats from Yarmouth and Bembridge, in the Isle of Wight, were on duty throughout the day, under the command of the...
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.20 a.m. on 29th October, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted two miles south of the Breakwater. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 1.33 in a strong westerly breeze...
on the llth November, the Life-boat Sabrina, launched, during a strong gale at S.W. and pro- ceeded to the assistance of the brig Wish, of Plymouth, which was ashore near Old Stairs Bay. The Wish was found to be leaking, and with 3 feet of...
On the night of the 9th January the coastguard telephoned that a vessel about 2 J miles north of Southwold harbour was burn- ing red flares, and the motor life-boat Mary Scott was launched at 9.30 P.M.
A moderate, and...
Left: Olympic athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson OBE, who gave the vote of thanks, was presented with a bouquet of flowers by Alice Bewick, daughter of Bronze Medal winner, Amos Bewick. - View image in PDF
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Her Grace Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk.
patron of Linlehampton branch, presented a silver statuette to Mr R. J. C. Richards, a former treasurer of the branch, during Littlehampton's lifeboat ball last autumn. With them... - View image in PDF
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Ax 9.14 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Torbay, Devon, life-boat station, Mr. F. W. H. Park, was informed by the coastguard at Berry Head that the Dutch tug Cycloop, which was shelter- ing in Torbay...
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Many of the launches of life-boats have been to the help of airmen.
When the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had been out to the rescue of a Hurricane fighter which had come down in the sea, the pilot's squadron...
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The Penlee life-boat standing by near the lighthouse while the supplies are dropped. - View image in PDF
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Workington, Cumberland. — On the 10th of July, 1952, the S.S. Clonlee, which had arrived off Workington from Algiers, laden with iron ore, radioed that she was short of food and asked for provisions. Her agents asked if the life-boat would...