(Above) Margate's new 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. - View image in PDF
38) on the day of her naming.. - View image in PDF
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On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...
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The splendid 81 Ib sturgeon who let himself be caught to raise money for the RNLI at Billingsgate Market's open dav last ear.
Portered here by Bill Ruth, the sturgeon was bought by London wholesaler, Leslie Steadman,... - View image in PDF
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EX-TORPEDO-BOAT DRIFTING Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.40 in the afternoon of the 7th of September, 1947, information was received by wireless, telegraph and telephone that a motor vessel had been seen drifting by the steamer Eddystone, when off...
A new wing has recently been added to the Institution's depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., to provide extra repair and maintenance facilities for, among equipment items, IRBs of the growing fleet. This night scene shows IRBs in store and one... - View image in PDF
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LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account— Aith, Appledore, Boulmer, Howth, Longhope, Lowestoft, Salcombe, Sheringham, Shoreham, St.
David's, Sunderland, Weston-super-Mare, Yarmouth (I. of W.),...
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THE Institution has received a gift from a Liverpool man who celebrated his twenty-first birthday by asking his friends, instead of buying him presents, to give him money for the life-boat service..
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POBTBUSH, Co. ANTBIM.—The s.s. Skelligs, of Glasgow, bound to Liverpool with a general cargo, was leaving the harbour during a strong breeze from the W. and a very high sea, on the afternoon of the 15th December, when she failed to answer...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.1 on the night of the 29th of October, 1956.
the coastguard reported that flares had been seen in the area of Shellness.
At 11.35 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...