Appledore, Devon. At 12.45 P-m- on 15th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on Lundy Island had broken his leg.
Arrangements were being made for him to be taken off by helicopter but the...
ADVENTURE AT SEA Dungeness, Kent. At 2.50 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat had broken down and was lying at anchor half a mile off Littlestone. Her crew were waving for help while they baled her...
CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of...
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Salcombe, South Devon. At 10.14 p.m. on 29th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flag was being waved from a motor boat that was drifting south in Starehole Bay. At 10.25 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
Padstow: On the morning of January 26 the local fishing vessel Lamorna ran into difficulties when a rope got wrapped round her propeller about three quarters of a mile off Newquay Head.
She put out an anchor to await help...
A VISUAL REPRESENTATION Full accounts are available from Poole headquarters and a detailed report of the annual general meeting held on May 22 at the National Film Theatre, London, will be published in the autumn issue of THE...
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With great regret we record the death of two Life Vice Presidents of the Institution and a noted Honorary Life Governor.
Surgeon Captain F.W.
Baskerville was elected to the Committee of Management in 1964...
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The delightful setting of Morton and Port Eynon. on the South Wales coast, serves to illustrate one of the benefits of the station's D class lifeboat - the ease with which it can be manoeuvred over that vast expanse of sand visible at... - View image in PDF
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Silence is golden. Rabbi Jonathan Romain (r), minister of Maidenhead Synagogue, took part in a sponsored non-sermon in August. He toured shops and offices in Maidenhead and told people he would give them a 30 minute sermon on the merits of... - View image in PDF
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SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave...