At 9 A.M.
on the 19th January, the Life-boat Richard and Anne Warner was summoned to the assistance of the Vittorioso G, a brig belong- ing to Venice, which was wrecked in Ban- now Bay, on the Selskar rocks, during a...
. . . and farewell to the 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat, a class which has served the RNLI, both as a pulling and sailing lifeboat and then as a motor lifeboat, since the mid 1800s. Grace Darling (below), built in 1954, the last of her... - View image in PDF
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A YEAR ago the Institution had a sound film made which showed the building of a motor life-boat, from the felling of teak and mahogany logs in Burma and Honduras up to the arrival of the completed boat at her...
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Grace Darling's Coble at The North-East Coast Exhibition. - View image in PDF
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When the Felixstowe Ferry sailing club held a life-boat weekend at Whitsun their two life-boat ladies were Miss Dianne Walters (left) and Miss Susan Rout. The girls' dresses were bright scarlet, jumpers white with blue lettering on the R... - View image in PDF
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Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.59 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1957, a message was received from the east pier watch that a yacht was sig- nalling for help off Quern buoy. At 4.8 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings. The...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.36 on the evening of the 14th of September, ] 957, the Foreland coastguard reported that a sailing boat appeared to be sig- nalling S.O.S. The life-boat Jesse Litmb was launched at 8.50 in a moder- ate sea....
J ANUARY 2 9 T H . - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. During the morning nine local fishing vessels were out and as a strong easterly wind had got up, with a rough sea, the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 10.30 A.M. She escorted the...
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