On 9th July, 1968, the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent, using radar, found a stranded ferry in dense fog and took off and landed 126 passengers and a dog in one go.. - View image in PDF
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Salcombe's Life-Boat The Baltic Exchange at Anchor In Salcombe River When Called Out Her Crew Go To Her By Motor Boat. - View image in PDF
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Right: a memorial to the disaster erected at St Annes in 1888. - View image in PDF
photograph (r) by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Above: Her Maje. - View image in PDF
at the Thurso lifeboat naming ceremony in 1989. - View image in PDF
Scottish Daily Record. - View image in PDF
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The 44-foot steel life-boat Khami, which is stationed at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, going out on exercise on 9th November, 1969, in a force 8 gale from the south east and a strong ebb tide.. - View image in PDF
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What a race! Holidaymakers joined local well wishers on the harbour bridge to cheer two rafts in a race which took them the length of Lake Lathing, around the derelict trawler Yellowtail and back to the starting point at the bridge. Teams... - View image in PDF
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Hundreds of fancy-dressed swimmers and spectators brave the elements at Charmouth beach each Christmas, thanks to Carol and Geoff Prosser at the Royal Oak, to raise money for Lyme Regis lifeboat station, so far to the tune of over... - View image in PDF
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The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, The Mumbles; Coxswain William Jones, Holyhead; Coxswain Griffiths Jones, Porthdinllaen; Coxswain Arthur Liddon, Dover; Second Coxswain Peter Gibbons, Lowestoft; Former Second Coxswain... - View image in PDF
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AT 9.26 on the night of the 21st of October, 1955, the Southend coxswain, Sidney Page, learnt from the coast- guard that the S.S. Cardiff brook had wirelessed that she had seen a ship aground one mile north-north-west of the North-East Mouse...
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
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