Coxswain Anthony Jordan After His Ii Hour Service. - View image in PDF
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• Howard Biggs, in his book The Sound of Maroons (Terence Dalton, Suffolk, £5.80) has researched diligently to produce such a fine history of the Kent and Sussex lifeboat stations from 1802 to 1977.
Much more than a...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1956 80,491 Notes of the Quarter THE summer months of 1956 were exceptionally...
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AFTER THE SERVICE on December 1 of St Peter Port lifeboat to Natali, which transports Guernsey shellfish to Santander, the vessel's owners, Mariscos Del Cantabrico, entertained all members of the station's crew and their wives,...
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LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Lincolnshire Shipwreck Society—the last remaining of the County Shipwreck Associations — having been brought into union with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the latter has completely renovated the four life-boat...
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APRIL 25TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
The rowing boat Meg, with no one on board, anchored in Llandudno Bay, was in danger of sinking during a strong southerly gale, with a rough sea. Three men put out in the small...
6O years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT of 1938 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats. 137 : Pulling & Sailing Life-boats. 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31 si. 1938 65.625 A difficult launch at Exmouth...
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Galway Bay. On the 8th of October, 1958, the Minister of State for Gaelic Affairs arrived at Kilronan with other officials in the island mail steamer with the intention of visiting the neighbour- ing islands by motor boat the next day and...
Holy Island, Northumberland. - 11.45 in the morning of the 6th of February, 1948, the coxswain saw that a fishing coble was in danger of driving on to the Megstone Rock, and the motor h'fe-boat Gertrude was launched at 12.20.<...
I read with great interest, in the Autumn 1997 issue of The Lifeboat the letter from Gareth Pryce respecting the ex-lifeboat The Three Sisters. A Liverpool class craft, late of Coverack, Cornwall, which he had seen at Rhos-on-sea, North... - View image in PDF
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