To MICHAEL F. HARDY, on his retirement, after serving for 27 years as coxswain and 4f years as second coxswain of the Eastbourne life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To...
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100 years ago One hundred years ago THE LIFEBOAT was also looking back - another 50 years to what it termed: A Noteworthy Jubilee from THE LIFEBOAT of 1893 Fifty years ago, Le. on the 20th October, 1842 there was laid to rest in her early...
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Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.
Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 108 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 75 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to - 62,866 February 29th, 1932 The Life-boat Service in 1931.
ALTHOUGH,...
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25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...
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Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.
of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...
THESE remains but one type of Life-boat to which reference is necessary to com- plete the description of those boats which are propelled either by sail or oars. The Cromer type bears so strong a resemblance to the Liverpool Life- boats that...
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(From The. Times, 18th October, 1889.) AMONG the many risks to which vessels navigating the sea channels near our coasts and the fairways leading to our ports are exposed, that of sunken or floating wrecks has of late years become very...
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On the 19th November, 1939, the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat rescued the crew of two of the smack Charlotte Ellen of Tollesbury, and the crew of two of the barge Lorna, of London.
COXSWAIN CHARLES R. ELLIS was awarded the...
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