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Disaster survivor names new lifeboatA ceremony in New Quay, Wales on 7 May 2004 was steeped in history. On the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat torpedo, it was a survivor of that tragedy who named a new...
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The child, the engineer and the Wizzer
In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat
Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...
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Cunopus
Sails blown out RED FLARES SIGHTED in the vicinity of Les Hanois Lighthouse were reported to the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2215 on Friday, November 11, 1977. A quarter of an hour later the 52ft Arun lifeboat Sir...
The S.S. San Francisco, of Havre
Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 7th August the 6,000-ton s.s. San Francisco, of Havre, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and bound laden from Newcastle to Havre, ran aground on Haisborough Sands, about two milesS.E. from Haisborough...
Egmont
At 12.30 A.M. on the 18th December, the smack Alicia brought news of a vessel having gone ashore on the Kentish, Knock Sand. The Life-boat Bradford at once proceeded, in tow of the harbour steamer Vulcan, through the Cudd Channel, and...
All a Board
Mr Richard Iddon, chairman of the Southport Boardsai I ing Association, is pictured preparing to take a turn on the Marine Lake, wearing borrowed lifeboatman's gear, during the British Windsurfing marathon 12-hour race held last... - View image in PDF
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Birthday Honours
THE list of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the Birthday Honours for 1955 was: K.C.B.
Vice-Admiral A. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Lesrix and S.S. Empire Pilgrim
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
Tinkerbelle Peter
At 10.52 p.m. on 25th March, 1967, news was received that the small power boat Tinkerbelle Peter had left Kew Bridge at 10.30 that morning bound for Wallersay Bay Marina and had not been seen since. At 5.12 a.m. on 26th March further...
Reg Dawe Names Treaddurr Bay Lifeboat Dorothy Selina In Memory of His Late Wife-
Reg Dawe names Treaddurr Bay lifeboat Dorothy Selina in memory of his late wife-. - View image in PDF
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