THE interest of the natives of the Gold Coast in the life-boat service has on several occasions been mentioned in this journal. The Institution has received letters from them written to it as a general stores, as " the best dealers in...
Category: Correspondence
PORTAFERRY | 12 NOVEMBER 2015
At 12.38pm, the volunteer lifeboat crew at Portaferry launched to the aid of three kayakers caught in force 7 winds and rough seas. When they arrived on scene, the crew found the three kayakers...
Category: Services
A 15-foot-high stained glass window with life-boat and lighthouse themes - the work of Mr. Alfred L. Wilkinson, of Dovercourt, Essex, has been added to St.
Mary's Church, Isles of Scilly, through the generosity of Mr.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
STAINLESS STEEL ROPE FOR RIGGING NOMINAL DIAMETER Milli- Inches metres (appro*) STANDING RIGGING RUNNING RIGGING MINIMUM B R E A K I N G LOAD (LBS) 2 2-5 3 4 5 6 7 5/64" 1/8" 5/32" 3/1 6" 1 '4" 9 32" 5,1...
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BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged,...
Category: Articles
THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
Category: Articles
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.
THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...
Category: Articles
MR. F. DOWNS, a member of the Whitstable inshore rescue boat crew, recently helped to save his own fishing boat from a possible explosion by a German magnetic mine.
His fishing boat, Harvester II, was found to have a German...
Category: Services
At the funeral service held in Cromer Parish Church on the 17th of June more than 1,400 people crowded into the church, and many hundreds more stood on the pavements outside. The life-boat coxswains of Sheringham, Wells, Caister and...
Category: Obituaries