Mrs. H. D. Ford, of Margate, who was responsible for the formation of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild in 1957, and held the office of honorary secretary, retired this year.
During her term of office she was awarded...
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OCTOBER 25TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. During a south-westerly gale, with very rough seas, the naval authorities at Portsmouth asked the Bembridge life-boat to go to the help of two ships in distress off Horse Sands...
OCTOBER 25TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. During a south-westerly gale, with very rough seas, the naval authorities at Portsmouth asked the Bembridge life-boat to go to the help of two ships in distress off Horse Sands...
THE following graphic account of a recent noble service performed by the Ramsgate Life-boat is extracted from a work just published, entitled "Storm Warriors."* We hail the appearance of this interesting book with considerable...
Category: Services
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...
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Cork.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Garda at Castle- townshend telephoned that the local yacht Charis had put out the day before and had not returned. At two...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1965, the motor yacht Queen of the Isles reported that a yacht was sinking three miles east of Menawethan.
Fifteen minutes later the lifeboat...
DOCTOR J. LEIPER, of Aberdeen, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum for the part he played when he was transferred at great risk from the Aberdeen life-boat to a German trawler to treat an injured man.
At 5 p.m....
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A century after the old Boarhills private lifeboat fell into disuse the station was visited by Broughty Ferry's Arun and D class lifeboats.
The Arun's Y-boat is pictured in the entrance to the old boathouse - no... - View image in PDF
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