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Captain Keay
Captain Keay presents a commemorative vellum to Berwick-upon-Tweed branch chairman, Ian Moore. The Reverend Arthur Wiltshire, Sheriff of Berwick, is in the background.. - View image in PDF
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A Dinghy (10)
Humber, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a small dinghy with four people on board was in difficulties at the mouth of the...
Lifeboatmen Prepare to Transfer One of the Four Survivors from the Capsized Speedboat from Plymouth's
Lifeboatmen prepare to transfer one of the four survivors from the capsized speedboat from Plymouth's Arun class lifeboat to hospital. - View image in PDF
Photo Nic Randall, Plymouth News Pictures. - View image in PDF
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Contents
/~ — y. j. f Y "f c* Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 39 North Cornwall . . . visit of The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, to five stations in North Cornwall 41 VolUme XLVI Lifeboat Services 42 Number 465...
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August
Launches 70 Lives rescued 107
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...
Category: Services
The Finnish Motor Vessel Johanna Thorden (2)
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
Coxswain Joe Martin of Hastings
Coxswain Joe Martin of Hastings was awarded his town's highest honour when, on October 31, 1984, at a civic ceremony he was presented with The Order of 1066.
Mayor of Hastings, Councillor R. Saunders, praised Joe... - View image in PDF
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On July 12 at the Baltic Exchange London His Excellency the Greek Ambassador
On July 12, at the Baltic Exchange, London, His Excellency The Greek Ambassador presented nautical gallantry medals to the men who were coxswain and crew ofSt Peter Port lifeboat when, on January 4, 1979, she had, together with helicopters,... - View image in PDF
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(Left) Barnett:
(left) Barnett: length overall 52ft; beam 14ft; draught 4ft 6in; displacement 29 tons; maximum speed, 9 knots; range a! full speed, 350 nautical miles. The Barnett, introduced in 1950, has a crew of seven; she launches down a slipway or lies... - View image in PDF
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A weighty endeavour
When cargo ship Red Duchess’s engines failed in severe gales her crew were helpless to stop her drifting towards the rocky shore of the Isle of Rum …
Tuesday 2 November 2010 was what’s known...
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