The present life-boat house (left) at Ilfracombe nestles at the foot of Lantern Hill where there is a fishermen's chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas. The new life-boat L/oyd'j II (right) is launched by tractor over the site of the... - View image in PDF
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MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.
The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....
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The Swanage, Dorset, life-boat R.L.P, being rehoused on 21st June, 1969, with the two men she had rescued from the yacht Lydos.. - View image in PDF
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THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
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This Autumn the Crew Training Appeal celebratedreaching the halfway point towards its target of £5m.. - View image in PDF
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(see page 281). - View image in PDF
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(See page 561). - View image in PDF
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IN another column of the Life-boat Journal we give an account of the exceptionally fine service performed by the Gorleston Life-boatmen on the 29th March, which led to the Fifth Service Clasp being bestowed on Cox- swain Sidney Harris and...
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