Llandudno's D class lifeboat 41 Club 1 makes her way through the Towyn floods with lifeboatmen and firemen aboard. (Photo Philip Micheu). - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 17TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.25 in the morning a request was received from the naval control for the life-boat to go to the Maplin Sands where a vessel had been driven ashore on the Black tail Spit. A strong southerly...
Down to business! The ceremony over, Margate's crew launch the station's D class lifeboat to tow a dinghy to safety.
...As the last cake crumbs were being brushed away and the bunting untied after the Margate... - View image in PDF
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Lunhods I wedged firmly into the rocks south of Kirkabister Light at the entrance to Bressay Sound. It was dark and blowing Force 10 when Soldian went to her rescue. - View image in PDF
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Wherever you sail you'll find Brookes & Gatehouse instruments lesifned and manufactured by A full complement of Brookes and Gatehouse units comprises: HERON D.F. aerial. HOMER receiver and short-wave converter. HECTA echo sounder....
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Barmouth: At the naming of RNLB Princess of Wales last November a fine painting of the lifeboat was presented to HRH The Princess of Wales by the lifeboat crew. It was by crew member and art teacher Tony Jeffs, seen here (r) with his father,... - View image in PDF
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The Story of the Filey Lifeboats The Story of the Buckie Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author, prices and availability in text Two more new editions of Jeff Morris's authoritative lifeboat station histories, each brought...
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Two new one act plays on the subject of the Life-boat Service have recently been written. Both are available to branches for local performances, and in each case the author is willing to forgo any royalties when branches produce the play in...
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On the night of the 18th October the honorary secretary received word from West Angle and St. Ann's Head that rockets were being fired in Mill Bay. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and visibility was...
SIR JOHN GHEST GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., died on the 9th of March, 1958, at the age of 89. He joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1921 and was appointed a Vice- President in 1932. He resigned from the Committee in 1956....
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