THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1950 - 76,899 Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued A Service by Ilfracombe,...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 30th of January. 1957, the fishing boat Kindly Light, of Seahouscs, was reported over- due. At 11.23 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched in a very rough sea. There was a...
Below: Celebrity autographs - fresh from appearances on the small screen Salcombe coxswain Frank Smith signs copies of a print of the Salcombe lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLA.
ND.—On the 19th February during heavy gale from the S.E., the Coxswain the Life-boat Thomas Bewick received message from the Trinity boatman requesting that the Life-boat might be sent to the...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.
At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—On the night of the 23rd December the Greek steamer Michalis Poutous, of Piraeus, bound light from Rouen to Barry Dock, ran on to the rocks in Bridgwater bay, near Burnham. She...
OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...
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The Trawler and The Remains of Her Boat. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Manby and Some of Her Scarf-Helmets. - View image in PDF
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Falmouth's Arun class lifeboat (below) and her coxswain Alan Barnes (left). - View image in PDF
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