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Photo: The three acorns Augustus Mann carried in his pocket on the day of the disaster
Category: Photographs
A Day's Leave Collecting
A NAVAL seaman was on leave in Staines for a day. It happened to be the flag- day for the Life-boat Service. He spent it collecting and got over six pounds..
Category: Donations
The Belgian Motor Trawler Ibis
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT DUNMORE EAST FEBRUARY 28TH and MARCH 1ST.- DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD.
At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th the motor life-boat C. & S., of Dunmore East, was launched to the help of the...
Yacht Winifred
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.54 on the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a barge had broken down off the harbour and that her steering gear had been carried away. At two o'clock the life-boat Rosa...
Golden Charter
You plan for things that might happen.
GOLDEN CHARTER X Pre-Paid Funeral Plans How about planning for something that definitely will? THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to...
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AUG. 10TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after midnight the officer in charge of troops on the jetty informed the coxswain that he could hear calls for help from the water.
The night was very dark. An air raid was in progress and...
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LIFEBOAT DAYS
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Category: Articles
O. B. Joyful, and another Small Boat
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 4.15 in the afternoon the Wyke Regis coastguard reported two boats in distress off Grove Point, Portland. A full north-west gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
Acker Bilk and His Jazzmen Were the Big Attraction at the Grand Ball Organised By the Recently Re-Formed Brightlingsea and District Branch Held In the Spring at a Holid
Acker Bilk and his Jazzmen were the big attraction at the grand ball organised by the recently re-formed Brightlingsea and District branch. Held in the spring at a holiday camp owned by the branch chairman, D. L. Hammerton, the ball raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mr Humphrey Atkins An Ex-Naval Officer Takes the Wheel of the 46Ft 9In Watson Lady Scott (Civil Service No 4) on a Visit to Portrush Lifeboat Station Last Se
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mr Humphrey Atkins, an ex-naval officer, takes the wheel of the 46ft 9in Watson Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) on a visit to Portrush lifeboat station last September. He was accompanied by Mrs Atkins... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs