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Coxswain Dave Kennett Takes the Relief Arun Class Margaret Russell Fraser Across Christchurch Bay Conditions In the Area Were Far Worse During the Bronze Me
Coxswain Dave Kennett takes the Relief Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser across Christchurch Bay. - View image in PDF
Conditions in the area were far worse during the Bronze medal service. (Photo Malory Maltby). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Honorary Workers
MRS. EDITH MA.NBY MRS. EDITH MANBY of Codsall, Staf- fordshire, died in February, 1951, at the age of nearly 86. For almost fifty years she had been an active life-boat worker in the Codsall area, and for some years was president of the...
Category: Obituaries
Five Intrepid Members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club
Five intrepid members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club, (7 to r) Paul Ward, Mike Boyce, Ian Burgess, Steve Towill and Colin Ward, ready to set out from their base camp at the Lansdowne public house, Dawlish. These men crawled— literally... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Indus and the Dock Board Hopper Mersey No. 24
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the port radar station that the M.V. Indus had collided with the Dock Board hopper...
£17,000 from South Africa.
The Southern African Branch, which was formed at a meeting at the end of February, 1942, had within a year sent the Institution £9,000 out of the £11,000 which it aims to raise in order to provide a motor life-boat to be named...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Foam Queen and another Boat
NOVEMBER 3RD. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At eight in the morning the life-boat station received a message from the Fairlight coastguard that a steamer was sinking one mile south of Hastings. A moderate south-byeast wind was...
The Empress of the French
BUT a few days since the British public were startled by the intelligence that the Empress of the French and her royal son, the Prince Imperial, had nearly lost their lives by drowning, on the coast of France.
We will...
Category: Articles
Criticisms of Life-Boat Services
WHEN the character of the services performed by the life-boats, and the dangers and diffi- culties which they have to encounter, are taken into consideration, it is rather matter for astonishment that they do not frequently fail in effecting...
Category: Articles
Morris Shefras
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Category: Advertisement
The Long Search
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.s.o., has been addressed to each of the crew of the Lerwick, Shetlands, life-boat for the escort service they provided to three...
Category: Services