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Major Showell-Rogers (left) with Coxswain Reginald Brown of the Poole life-boat.. - View image in PDF

On the 29th No- vember, the smack Canton, of Scarborough, was observed with signals of distress during a strong wind. The Annie life-boat went off and succeeded in placing the vessel in comparative safety outside St. Andrew's Harbour at...

Whitby, Yorkshire. At 1.55 p.m. on 8th February, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea on the harbour bar was becoming very bad and that two local motor fishing vessels, Lead Us and Ocean Venture, were still at sea....

Walmer, Kent - At 5.55 p.m. on 3rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was drifting about outside the South Brake buoy. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched at 6.36 in a fresh...

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Nine rescued from ketch ashore on sands near Chichester Bar A difficult service which led to the rescue of nine people from a yacht aground on the East Pole Sands, just outside Chichester Harbour, has led to the chairman of the RNLI sending...

Antique valuers Mr W. Cooper of Boulton and Cooper Ltd and Mr N. Brooksbank of Christie's Ltd, York, intent on items brought to them by guests at Helmsley ladies guild's antiques valuation evening held at Queen Mary's School,... - View image in PDF

COXSWAIN YVES SYLVESTRE HERVE, of the Criccieth life-boat Robert Lindsay. Born in Brittany, Coxswain Herve, who served in the French merchant navy from 1935 to 1941 and then in the Free French commandos, joined the Criccieth life-boat in...