A cheque for £5,000 from the Association for Rescue at Sea (AFRAS) towards the American/British Lifeboat Appeal was recently presented by Kingman Brewster, United States Ambassador (I.) to Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston, chairman,... - View image in PDF
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By the death of Mrs. Ferris Tozer on 7th October the Institution lost one of its oldest and most energetic honorary workers. The Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Exeter, she had been a Life-boat worker for...
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IT IS THE GREAT AMBITION of F0rOya Bjargingarfelag, the Faroese Lifesaving Society, to develop a lifeboat service as an extension to the coast rescue equipment companies it has already established at various strategic points round this...
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No. 3 Life-boat Area (North East England) BRIDLINGTON'S BUSY DAY ON 12th July the Bridlington, Yorkshire, life-boat William Henry and Mary King—she is a 37-foot Oakley—and the local inshore rescue boat had a busy...
On her slipway at The Mumbles is 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No 31) which in the television series becomes Ennal's Point lifeboat Samuel Grail.
photograph by courtesy of "South Wales Evening... - View image in PDF
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The smaller of the two Norwegian boats, Ragni Berg, stood by a Dutch yacht in trouble off Esbjerg on her passage from Norway. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Dag Pike. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 26TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
The American steamer William H. Welsh, of Baltimore, had gone ashore and was totally wrecked, with loss of life, near Loch Ewe, in a north-north-east gale. Before the life-boat could...
By Commander E. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
WE left Cowes just before 7 A.M. of the 4th October. I had with me the Blyth Coxswain and three men, the Blyth Motor Mechanic, the...
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In September Mr. Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative Party, went out in a R.N.L.I, inshore rescue boat from the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, Glamorganshire. The man in the cap is Mr. Peter Gurnell, Outward Bound Sea School... - View image in PDF
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At 10.14 a.m. on 10th November, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Nonsuch, a 65-ton replica of a 17th-century Hudson Bay Company trading vessel, with a crew of seven, was in difficulties in heavy seas south west...