The famous 'Blue Peter' lifeboat appeal was made on 5th December, 1966. It asked for 60,000 paper-backed books.
The response was so great that the books, when sold, made enough money to purchase not one but four... - View image in PDF
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Fig. 6: Bob Stock, who more than 36 years ago was awarded the bronze medal for his part in a service which took Dover lifeboat into minefields, adjusts the tappets on one of Edian Courtauld's twin Ford Barracuda engines.. - View image in PDF
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THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act, of life-saving in 1953 has been won by Coxswain HughNelson,ofDonagha- dee, County Down. The award has been made for the service to the Princess Victoria on the 31st of Jan- uary, 1953, when the...
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NOVEMBER 15TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 12.17 P.M. the Mersey Docks Board reported to the life-boat authorities that a steamer had sunk near the Gamma Buoy.. A S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The No. 1 motor life-boat...
Crew picture: The crew of the Blue Peter IV Andrew Northcote - Vellum award winner, Rory Bushe and Carey Morgan. - View image in PDF
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JUNE 28TH. - NEW QUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.
At 4 P.M. the crew and helpers had assembled for an exercise launch when the small sailing boat Idle Hour, of New Quay, with a crew of two, was seen drifting to the east of the harbour...
On the 25th of November the services of the Ramsgate life-boat were again brought into requisition. At daybreak on that day, the wind blowing a heavy gale at the time from N.N.W., a brigantine was observed, with signals of distress flying,...
0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
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