(Left) 'Lifeboat Jubilee', a new rose grown by John Samiay (Roses) Ltd, will be on show at the Royal National Rose Society's Slimmer Show at the Horticultural Ha/I, I incent Square, London, SWI, on July 28 and 29.. - View image in PDF
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Filey, Yorkshire.—At~7.30 A.M. on the 25th March, 1939, the life-boat coxswain reported that three fishing cobles were out north of the Brig. The weather was bad, with heavy snow and showers, and it was decided to keep a look-out. Later the...
Medallists all, in order of presentation. In the foreground are Coxswain John King, of Bridlington, and Coxswain Michael Berry, of St Helier, Jersey, both of whom were awarded the silver medal for gallantry.. - View image in PDF
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Aboard Arwed Emminghaus a few technical details are explained by her captain, Rolf Hoffman. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Central Office of Information. - View image in PDF
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IN the early hours of Sunday, the 6th of November, 1949 (see page 402) the Margate life-boat was called out on service and one of the crew, Benjamin Frost, cycled down to the boathouse at the end of the pier. As soon as he got into the boat...
Category: Obituaries
MR. C. S. CLAYTON of the firm of Messrs.
Clayton, Leach, Sims & Co., died on the 19th of April, 1951, three and a half months after he had retired from it.
He had then been a partner in the firm for...
Category: Obituaries
FOR their part in the rescue of three people from a burning motor boat off Bournemouth, Police Sergeant Douglas H. Carter, aged 43, and Police Constable Arthur E. Farley, aged 46, have received the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum....
Category: Services
JANUARY 10TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but before putting out to sea the life-boat found her in the outer harbour. - Rewards, £14 6s.
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The RNLI Flood Rescue Team Land Rover is now available as a Corgi model, along with its very own trailer and lifeboat.
With a recent run of wet Summers, specially trained RNLI volunteers have rescued hundreds of people...
Category: Articles
TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.
SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...
Category: Correspondence