The effect of the north pier at Southwold on the southerly movement of sand can clearly be seen - there is a distinct 'step'in the beach.. - View image in PDF
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LAST year there was again an increase in the number of branches which held life-boat days, in the number of people who contributed and in the amount collected.
The number of branches holding days was|732, one more than in...
Category: Correspondence
(Right) Between July and October last year Beccles and District branch pirate ship 'raided' holidaymakers on the Norfolk Broads with collecting boxes and raised (.550.11; this year she will be outward bound in March. Her crew are:... - View image in PDF
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On a squally November night, time was rapidly running out for a fisherman in the water in Fraserburgh Harbour
It was quick thinking, forward planning and great teamwork by the local lifeboat...
Category: Articles
JAN. 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 6 A.M. the watchman at the life-boat station reported a steam trawler aground on the Trinity Sands.
breeze was blowing, with a slight sea.
A N.W.<...
Launches 23. Lives rescued 10.
APRIL 2ND. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 4.30 P.M. the naval officer in charge, Shetlands, asked if the life-boat could take a military guard to Foula, and bring back some airmen whose Whitley bomber...
Category: Services
TRAMORE, COUNTY WATERFORD.—The brig Paul, of Hennebont, was seen standing into the bay on the morning of the 22nd February, after a very stormy night.
She had only two topsails and a jib set and appeared to be labouring...
On the 10th April the barge Arthur Margetts, of Rochester, bound for Brightlingsea with a cargo of crude oil, got into difficulties. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The barge dropped anchor, but it dragged, and she went...
Douglas Head and Harbour, 1974. Note lifeboat boathouse and slip in outer harbour, or Crough; Fort Anne, above inner harbour; and Si Mary's Rock with its Tower of Refuge at bottom right of picture.
photograph by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, paid a visit to the West Country in May, 1952, and named the new life-boats at the Port of Plymouth and at Padstow.
The Port of Plymouth had a life- boat station as...
Category: Inaugurations