DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid ser- vices, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institu- tion, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115...
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The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched at 9.55 A.M. on the 24th December, as a fisherman had repo'rted that the motor fishing boat White Lady appeared to be in need of help. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a...
Support for the American!British Lifeboat Appeal is growing on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York last September, after a Silver Jubilee performance by the Band of the Grenadier Guards and the Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards, a... - View image in PDF
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The christening in May of Bryan Michael White, son of Motor Mechanic Bob White and his wife Susan, took place on board Number lifeboat at Spurn Point. The service was conducted by the Reverend L. D. Christie, Vicar of Easington, who used as... - View image in PDF
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(Above) The new Atlantic boathouse at Penarth in South Wales was designed to provide modern accommodation for the lifeboat and crew yet harmonise with traditional sea front buildings nearby.. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7.45 in the evening the naval control asked the life-boat coxswain to assemble his crew, as a vessel, somewhere in the east anchorage, was sending out a wireless SOS, and a tug and a fire-float...
When the Felixstowe Ferry sailing club held a life-boat weekend at Whitsun their two life-boat ladies were Miss Dianne Walters (left) and Miss Susan Rout. The girls' dresses were bright scarlet, jumpers white with blue lettering on the R... - View image in PDF
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