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A Notes of the Quarter (47 Contents Lifeboat Services 149 Vollime XT VTT Lifeboat Services, September, October and November, 1980 154 N Umber 475 Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part III: plated up 155 Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919,...

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—At day- break, on the 28th March, during a strong north-easterly wind and in a heavy sea, a large barque was seen ashore on the Goodwin Sands with a signal of distress flying. The Life-boat Bradford and the harbour...

The first D class JLB to be funded from the stamp appeal organised by Barrie Smale, 17 Station Road, Okehampton, Devon, is stationed at Holyhead. She is seen here with crew members and shore helpers on the day a commemorative plaque was... - View image in PDF

Deeds of Covenant The sheet of paper which carries your address label for this issue of the journal has advice and guidelines for completing a deed of covenant.

If your address label has the code COV NA, you have already...

Listing coaster HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2256 on Sunday December 13, 1981, that the coaster Harry Mitchell was north of Humber Lightvessel with her cargo shifted and a list...

SWANSEA —On the 4th May, 1872, the Life-boat Wolverhampton, stationed at the Mumbles, proceeded to the assistance of the ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, which had gone ashore near the harbour during a strong gale from the W. Some of the crew of...

Soul searching There was extensive national and local TV, radio and press coverage in March of the painful unfolding story of a family lost to the sea at Scarborough. After an 11-year-old boy was swept off the front and his family attempted...

[This article appeared in The Lancet for 29th, June 1946, in the feature "In England Now," and is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the editor of The Lancet.] OCCASIONALLY we read in our daily paper "The...