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R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 a 46' 9" midship steering Watson lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Beken and Son. - View image in PDF
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Clovelly, Devon. At 9.20 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a small sailing boat, which had beet under observation since 6.30 but had made no distress signals, was drifting off Clovelly. The...
BROADSTAIRS AND RAMSGATE. — The brigantines Glance and Glide, of Ramsgate, both bound for Ramsgate from the north with coal, came into collision off the North Foreland in a strong E.N.E. gale, snow squalls, and a heavy sea on the morning of...
THREE SEARCHES FOR AN AEROPLANE Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 8.12 in the evening of the 27th of June, 1947, the Tara coastguard reported that an Aerovan aeroplane on a flight to New- townards was believed to have crashed one mile east of Craig...
The Calendar.
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...
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SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat was published, the Institution has lost by death a number of its friends and workers, among them Sir Charles Wilson, Chairman of the Leeds Branch, Colonel Cornish, for many years HonorarySecretary of the...
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CAPTAIN S. E. FOSTER, R.N., who for several years was honorary secretary of the Ryde, Isle of Wight, station, died last August. Knowing his interest in the life-boat service his family, in the announcement of his death, asked that gifts...
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The President of Iceland, Mrs Vigdis Finnbogadottir, with Coxswain/Mechanic Maurice Hutchens of Sennen Cove (c) and Gunnar Thorsteinsson, captain of the Icelandic coaster Tungufoss. For the rescue of 11 men from Tungufoss last September, Mrs... - View image in PDF
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JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...