Caught on camera at Kirwall Harbour is the station's new Severn 1 class lifeboat, Margaret Foster, (centre) which arrived in March 1998.
She is joined by the ex- Kirkwall Arun class lifeboat, Mickie... - View image in PDF
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On their bikes! A civic appeal started by Cllr George Parkinson, chairman of Wokingham district council in 1993 and pictured right, culminated in a sponsored cycle ride in April and brought the final total to £11,700 for his two-year... - View image in PDF
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Litchfield ladies' guild organised their tenth annual fork luncheon in the spring, cooking, preparing and serving all the food themselves. Held, as usual, in the Guildhall it was a sell out, some 250 people attending; the profit was... - View image in PDF
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DUNCANNON, WATEHFORD HARBOUR.— On the 3rd March, at about 1.15 P.M., a vessel was seen to be striking heavily on the Bar. The Life-boat Richard and Ann Warner was got out, but owing to the state of the tide, and to the wind being in a S.S.E....
ON another page we record one of the most fearful catastrophes that has ever happened on the seas. The burning of the emigrant ship Austria, with 528 persons on board, of whom no less than 471 were drowned, suffocated, or burned to death.<...
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NEWHAVEN.—On the 3rd January last, a dismasted vessel having been seen off the harbour, the Life-boat Michael Henry pro- ceeded out to her. The wind was blowing moderately from W.S.W. and a heavy sea was running. On arriving at the vessel it...
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The Institution deeply regrets the loss of the following former coxswains of life-boats in recent months in addition to others whose deaths have already been recorded in the Life-boat: Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain...
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Contents ««--Q-* a, Penlee Formal Investigation 221 Volume XL VIII Lifeboat Service. 222 Number 4o4 Happy people: rescued two and saved boat 228 The naming of RNLB Ann Ritchie, Oban 229 Chairman: American Connection: the naming of...
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SEATON CAREW and HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.—A terrible disaster, involving the loss of several lives, mostly Lascars, took place on the 31st January at the mouth of the River Tees. The s.s. Clavering, of London, a large vessel of upwards of 3,300...
COXSWAIN GEORGE LENG of Flam- borough died on the 6th of March, 1955, at the age of 75. He served as coxswain for 14 years, retiring at the end of 1945. He had previously served for more than 11 years as bowman.
In 1937 he...
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