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Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 7.23 on the evening of the 8th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a boat appeared to be in difficulties three miles off Leven Bay. A fresh west- south-westerly wind was blowing, and...
A Dinghy (3)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.42 on the evening of the 23rd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had overturned off Ballyreagh and that three people were in the water. There was a gentle north-...
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Representatives of Overseas Maritime Authorities and LiEsaving Associations Are Always Welcome at Rnli Headquarters Among Recent Visitors to Poole Was Rear Co
Representatives of overseas maritime authorities and li.esaving associations are always welcome at RNLI headquarters. Among recent visitors to Poole was Rear Commodore J. B. Pearson of North Queensland Squadron, Australian Volunteer Coast... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary
MAY 23RD. - HYTHE, KENT. At about 8.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield was off Beachy Head on passage from Cowes to her station after overhaul.
There she saw the motor cruiser Mary, of Chichester, with her...
Harbour Lights Uk
nest This 141 ft. tall lighthouse, built in 1906, guards Weymouth Bay md the treacherous currents on the South Coast.
IWll.M.J Bill Dorset Eddy stone Lighthouse Devon 8x4 tinted limited edition MMibUc 2001 onfy £77.50...
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B.E.M. for Scottish Coxswain.
Coxswain James Thomson, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, has won both the Institution's silver medal and the British Empire Medal for rescuing the crew of a steamer in the blizzard which swept the west coast ot Scotland in the middle of...
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A New Life-Boat Fleet
Early in the war the building of motor life-boats almost ceased, because of the demands on the shipyards made by the fighting services. During the five years and eight months of war, 17 new life-boats were sent to the coast. In normal years...
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Whaler Diana, of Hull
On the 19th Oct., during one of the worst gales experienced on this coast for years, the steam-whaler Diana, of Hull, was observed stranded on the Slate Run. The wind was blowing a perfect hurricane from the north at the time. The life-boat...
Lord Southborough
THE LORD SOUTHBOROUGH, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I, P.C., who died in January, 1947, at the age of eighty-six, after an astonishingly full life of public service, had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1926, and was appointed a...
Category: Obituaries