Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 11.15 p.m. on zoth January, 1966, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the Border Sailing Club rescue boat, with one man on board her, was adrift on the rocks at the west side of the bay, her...
The three anglers are brought ashore by Penarth's D class inflatable. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy South Wales Echo). - View image in PDF
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THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...
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Whitby, Yorkshire - At 10.15 a-mon nth April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that conditions were deteriorating on the bar and harbour approaches and that the oldest boat in the local fleet was approaching the harbour....
A VEKY fine service was performed by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat on the llth April, 1919, when she rescued six pilots from the pilot cutter Day Dream, of Dundee. Just before one in the morning the news was received that a ship had run...
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THIS is the third feature describing companies which have given the R.N.L.I.
valuable financial support over a number of years.
9 Colvilles Ltd., of Glasgow, which is now the Colvilles Division of the...
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Books by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell and Commander H. B. Baothby.
Brave Men All. By Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O. (Hodder & Stoughton, 7s. 6d. net).
Spunyarn. By Commander H....
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RAMSGATE.—On the 26th March, 1860, a schooner was reported to be on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The Harbour Commissioners' life-boat Northumberland was quickly towed out to her assistance by the Harbourtug Aid, there being a fresh wind...
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Plymouth, Devon - At 5.15 p.m. on 22nd June, 1966, the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Roivse proceeded to Mount Wise pier to meet the Commander- in-Chief, Plymouth, and Lady Talbot who were to go out on exercise with the boat. At 5.45,...
Her crew of two men were rescued fay the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat in the early morning of 6th October, 1929.. - View image in PDF
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