A Sunday exercise during the passage involves the Mersey taking Salcombe's Tyne class. The Baltic Exchange II. in tow. - View image in PDF
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Barmouth.—At midnight, on the 25th of July last, the smack, Ann and Catherine, of Barmouth, stranded on the bar off that place, the wind blowing a gale from W. S. W. at the time. At 2 A.M. the Barmouth life- boat, belonging to the National...
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A sponsored swim undertaken by pupils of Winton Junior School, Bournemouth in April raised £432.
Anthony Oliver, DOS (South) demonstrates a line throwing apparatus to some of the children at the school, while Mary... - View image in PDF
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This year one of the life-boat cards has been designed by an 11 - year old girl, Philippa Mary Dudgeon, of Woking, Surrey, the overall winner of a life-boat Christmas card design competition organised by the children's magazine Look and...
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MOST persons in this country are aware that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has studded the coasts of the United Kingdom with Life-boats; but it is probably not known to many that nearly the whole of those boats are built in London,...
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The Cardiff steamer Porthcawl, from which the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat rescued twenty-five men on 14th September. - View image in PDF
This photograph was taken from the air. (See page 162.). - View image in PDF
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The Marie Moller off Holyhead, 22nd March, 1937 (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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The Lifeboat D class lifeboat D-479 M*Y Buili 1995 Cost £11,275 Funding Gift of Or May Road ThaCftw Helmsman Amoi Bewick tor his 'outstanding skill, calm leadership and unswerving deter mi na lion lo perform a hfesavmg service'...
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Mrs Jo Allam, 'the lifeboat lady' of Weston-super-Mare, has made the lifeboat service her life for the past 27 years. Her husband, in the Merchant Service, was one of 41 men lost when ss Samtampa was driven ashore on rocks off Sker... - View image in PDF
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Jan. 7.—Voted 61. to six men, for saving the crew, consisting of eight men, of the brigantine Pathfinder, of Digby, N.S., who had taken refuge on Tor Rock, about a mile N.W. of Innia- trahull Light, off the coast of Donegal, their vessel...
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