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Barmouth: Crew Member John H Stockford Honorary Medical Adviser and Crew Member Dr Robert Airdrie Haworth and Motor Mechanic Colin Pugh Are Presented to The
Barmouth: Crew Member John H. Stockford, Honorary Medical Adviser, and Crew Member Dr Robert Airdrie Haworth and Motor Mechanic Colin Pugh are presented to the Duke of Kent. They were the first ILB silver medallists: the awards were made for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat Named Bee
At about 4.45 P.M. on 28th December, 1931, information was received from a fisher- man that a small boat, with two men, had been seen drifting helplessly out to sea. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. The Motor Life-boat...
Nostalgia Direct
AVAILABLE ON 2 TAPES OR 2 CDs CLIFF ADAMS SINGERS owieimna THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION The Cliff Adams Singers first presented 'Sing Something Simple1 in 1959 and it became a huge success captivating listeners with medleys of 'old...
Category: Advertisement
Iris
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.31 in the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the West Mersea police had reported a fishing boat drifting towards Colne, and at 12.48 the life-boat Edward...
Past and Present
25 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1963 Issue.
Notes of the Quarter THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the development of life-boat design and in the...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Making Money
After the maiden trip of the latest addition to Lowestoft's trawler fleet, Silverfish, owned by the Colne Fishing Co. Ltd., the owners gave the first kit of fish, one of selected plaice, to be auctioned for the Institution's...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Windsor Castle
Soon after i 2 A.M. on the 22nd July the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was ! aroused and informed that signal guns 1 were being fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. The crew were assembled I and the boat launched. ...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas Dent of Newbiggin, who first joined the Newbiggin crew in 1932. He was bowman from 1938 to 1944, second coxswain from 1944 to 1947 and was appointed coxswain in July 1947. Since he became a...
Category: Articles
The Littlehampton, Sussex, Irb Blue Peter
The Littlehampton, Sussex, IRB Blue Peter I, alongside a naval torpedo recovery boat after a gas explosion aboard the vessel on 25th May, 1970. A naval mechanic was badly burned.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (77)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...