DURING the autumn of 1924 two films with a special Life-boat interest i were released to the Cinemas. One o f ' them, " Down to the Sea in Ships," is; the cruise of a whaler. Among its scenes are the wreck of one of the boats...
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JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.
A gale was blowing from the...
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A VERY generous friend of the Life-boat Services of Great Britain and Norway passed away by the death on the llth November last, at the age of seventy- five, of Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. She had lived there for...
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The Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., and the Right Hon. the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G., P.C.
BY the death of the Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., on 20th July last, and the death of the Right...
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LAUnCHeS 2,210 LIFeBoAt AnD HoVeRcRAFt LAUncHes APRIL–jUne 2007 12-32 JOY AND CHARLES BEEBY 14-17 ELIZABETH AND RONALD 17-26 HENRY ALSTON HEWAT on-####(12-##) Mersey class last built: 1993 refit cost: £190,000 on-####(14-##) trent class...
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Padstow lifeboathouse, at Trevose Head on the north coast of Cornwall, is at the foot of steep cliffs. On Sunday September 18, 1983, a new lift up these cliffs was formally opened by Captain P. K. C. Harris, HM Coastguard regional controller... - View image in PDF
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Doreen Beste, Braunton and Croyde branch souvenir secretary, decided to raise funds for the Institution by holding a teddy bear picnic at her home.
Doreen and guests certainly got a surprise when her family from Tamworth... - View image in PDF
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CLYDE CLASS 70-003 LOA 71' : Beam 18' : Displacement 87 tonsLATEST OF the Clyde class lifeboats, 70-003, was named City of Bristol by the Lady Mayoress of Bristol, Mrs A. G.
Peglar, at Narrow Quay, Bristol, on...
Category: Inaugurations
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the evening of the 9th August the coastguard reported that St. Nicholas light-vessel was firing distress signals for a small yacht ashore in a dangerous position on Scroby Sands. A...
As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.
D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...