SEATON CAREW, DURHAM.—On the night of April 12th, signals of distress were observed on the North Gare Sand, at the entrance to the River Tees, the wind from the S.E. with a high sea on. The Seaton Carew life-boat was at once launched and...
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The unveiling of the memorial by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, Air Marshal Ian Macfadyen (pictured to the left of sculpture, at the front).
Also pictured (from left to right) is David Cretney... - View image in PDF
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DURING 1935 the coastguard took action in the case of 733 vessels off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The rocket life-saving appar- atus companies were assembled 68 times for service and 87 people were brought to safety by...
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IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.
This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...
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photographs by courtesy of Peter Hadfield Thousands of Tablers came to Newhaven to be present at the naming of the 44' Waveney lifeboat Louis Marchesi of Round Table. They brought their families with them and the local Table, acting as... - View image in PDF
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At 5.45 A.M. on the 4th September the Coast- guard received a telephonic message from the Gunfleet Light-house, stating that a schooner was on the sands.
Without delay the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 proceeded under...
ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
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Weymouth, Dorset - At 5.7 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties one mile south east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 5.30....
Brownies of the 4th Bishopbriggs Pack, Glasgow, seen with Guider.
Mrs Sheena Smith, give the income of their monthly tuck shop to the lifeboat service. Gradually their contribution has increased: 1973, £3.40: 1974.... - View image in PDF
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THE ISLE OF PURBECK, AND ITS LIFE- BOATS.
XLI. — SWANAGE.— The Charlotte and Mary, 35 feet by 9 feet, 10 oars.
XLII.—KIMERIDGE.—The Mary Heape, 28 feet by 6 feet 8 inches, 5 oars.
THIS...
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