Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 27th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Ardetta, of Liverpool, which was off Newhaven, had asked for a boat to land a man who had fallen down her hold. The...
Thursday, 21st October, 1926.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Elected Brig.-Gen, Noel M. Lake, C.B., an Honorary life-Governor of the Institution.
Reported the resignation from...
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(below) An Atlantic 21 lifeboat airborne in trials at the Shingle Bank off the Isle of Wight. The Atlantic 21 has enough speed, up to 30 knots, to run clear of unstable seas in shallow water or steer round breaking crests when going to... - View image in PDF
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ON life-boat flag day in Birming- ham an elderly woman went to a collector, and instead of putting copper or silver in the life-boat in return for her flag, gave the collector a little package. When it was opened it was found to contain...
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CHILLED SURVIVORS AFTER a white flashing light had been seen off Margate, Kent, at 12.54 a.m. on 4th October, 1971, the life-boat North Foreland was launched.
After travelling a mile and a half towards the flashing light...
An oil painting of the Walton-on-the-Naze life-boat aiding the grounded collier Ypapanti, off the Essex coast in the November gales of 1966, was the centre of attraction at a dinner and life-boat film show in aid of the R.N.L.I. at the... - View image in PDF
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A hard shoulder to lean on.
Motorists on the M25 had something to distract them from the inevitable traffic jams in July when the ex- Courtmacsherry Solent class lifeboat R.
Hope Roberts made a passage to... - View image in PDF
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LXVIII. HARWICH.—The Springwett, 45 feet by 11 feet, 12 oars.
HARWICH, standing on the extremity of a tongue of land or narrow peninsula pro- jecting into the estuary of the rivers Stour and Orwell, is said to have risen...
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SEPTEMBER 24TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
A British bomber aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea twelve miles north of Runswick, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £9 0S. 6d..
Tim portrait on the -cover is of Coxswain Leonard Peddlesden, of Newhaven, Sussex, who retired in January after serving for fifteen years as an officer of the life-boat. He had been coxswain for nearly six years. He won the silver medal for...
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