HAPPY MEMORIES
RESCUE IN WARTIME
A scenic seascape in our last issue got one reader thinking of childhood holidays – and old RNLI friends
The lovely photograph of Ballycotton Harbour on page 23 of the summer...
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Margate, Kent. — At 12.46 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was drifting four miles to the north-east of the lookout, and at 1.23 came another message that she was now flying a...
Governors Shoreline Storm Force Thank you As the New Year begins, the number of RNLI members now stands at a record 197,000. We would like to say thank you to every one of you for supporting the RNLI in 1991 - and look forward to your...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.52 on the morning of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the converted ship's boat Judorka of Swansea had not returned to her berth in the...
By BARBARA BULL (14J), Leesland Girls' School, Gosport, Hants.
The Qualities that make THE Vikings of old were children of the sea, loving the waves they fought and conquered, but as cruel as the surging waters they...
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Mr. Alfred Belk, of Hartlepool, an alderman, borough recorder, town clerk and justices' clerk, who died on 4th December, 1937, at the age of eighty- four, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Hartlepool station five years...
Category: Obituaries
About 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March, the yawl | Puffin, of Wexford, with a crew of six hands, grounded on the west side of the bar, when coming into port from the fishing-grounds. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 15 were at once...
ON March llth, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
(Major-General Seely), coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight,...
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Leaving Newlyn Harbour on her passage from Cowes to her station.. - View image in PDF
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