A fine service was carried out by the Flamborough No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, Forester, on April 28th, when she rescued the crew of sixteen of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. In the early hours of the morning, in a dense fog,...
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ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...
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A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
EARLY in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer English Trader, of London, ran ashore on Checkstone Ledge, at the entrance to Dartmouth harbour, owing to the temporary failure...
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(Right) Fifty minutes of sponsored silence for the five to eleven-year-olds at Grendon Road Junior School, Birmingham, raised £252.08 for the lifeboat service.. - View image in PDF
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A YEAR ago the Institution had a sound film made which showed the building of a motor life-boat, from the felling of teak and mahogany logs in Burma and Honduras up to the arrival of the completed boat at her...
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AN anonymous gift of £2 has been received from a man and wife " in gratefulness for the blessings received during fifty years of married life.".
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St Albans County Constitutional Club held a dinner dance in November and during the evening filmed horse races were shown with those present sponsoring horses in each race. A cheque for £600 resulting from this sponsorship was handed... - View image in PDF
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Only 39 miles to go - Andrew Freemantle and Michael Vlasto set the pace.. - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: ILB Crew Member H. E. "Dilly" Appleton with the youngest of 121 people taken off the pleasure cruiser Queen of the Broads which ran aground on Breydon Water in thick fog on Tuesday June 19. After being... - View image in PDF
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