50 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1936, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935, reached Wells, Norfolk, on llth February...
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AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
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Clinging to the Devonshire coastal rock, Dartmouth is both a fi shing and naval port. Its waters also teem with leisure craft, jostling for the town’s 3,000-plus berths. More than 2M people fi nd themselves on the River Dart each year and...
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Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The Winter 1906 Life-boat Journal featured a letter of thanks to the Broadstairs lifeboat crew, Kent, after they had launched into a south westerly gale and...
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water, the submarine.surveying apparatus will be used in addition to the ordinary mode of sweep- ing ; the stages (with the divers down the chain- ladders on their platforms) being drawn by a screw-steamer about half a-mile the hour, there...
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AT THE TIME of the London Boat Show last January a discussion was held on the shared task of lifesaving at sea by lifeboats and rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters of the Royal Navy were represented by Lt-Cdr Adrian Thomas, Commanding...
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Angle, Pembrokeshire April 18.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow May 20.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal Vlay 3.
iarmouth, Merionethshire May 16.
Jarra Island, Outer Hebrides March 22, 24 and...
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Silver service at Cleethorpes and Numberhe knew he was in grave danger. It would take the combined skills and courage of Cleethorpes and Number lifeboat crews to rescue Dollard in an exceptional service, winning four medals It is a rare...
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