During the first Benson and Hedges Fair Isle International Yacht Race, which was mentioned in the Y.L.A. section in the January edition, the crew of the reserve life-boat Hilton Briggs from Kirkwall, exercising in the area, towed two of the... - View image in PDF
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On the 25th December, during stormy weather, the smack Castle, of Aberystwith, was totally wrecked at the mouth of the bar.
The Evelyn Wood life-boat went off and" placed 6 men on board to assist in saving the vessel...
OH the 4th August, i during a fresh wind from the N.W., the .
Arklow Life-boat saved the crew of 5 men ; of the brigantine Jane, of Barmouth, i which had stranded on Jack's Hole Bank. | The boat afterwards...
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
A VISITOR who called at Life-boat House this autumn made the remark that he never opened a newspaper without seeing in it something about the Life- boat Service....
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The NewQuay, Cardiganshire, life-boat returning with the body of a man on 16th August, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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The Late Richard Oakley is pictured below with a model of the clans of lifeboat which hears liis name.. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Peter Burwood of Harwich presented the prizes for a pumpkin growing competition arranged last year by Bury St Edmunds branch. Seven schools took part and £948.58 was raised together with a further £50 for the sale of the... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 14TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.56 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on Spittal Point. The northerly breeze was light, but there was a heavy swell. The motor life-boat J. and W. was launched...
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—About 12.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of Nov- ember, 1949, information was received that three local fishing vessels were at sea and that the weather was worsen- ing. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield,...
Thousands of people attended Hoylake open day last August which had as its peak of entertainment a display by the RAF's world famous Red Arrows, seen here just as they pass over Hovlake lifeboat. Royal Marines dropped by parachute from a... - View image in PDF
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