JANUARY 8TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
During the evening a request was received at the pier for a doctor to be sent to a naval vessel in the Bristol Channel. As no other suitable boat was available the motor lifeboat Rosabella...
In the course of 24 hours on 28th-29th October, 1880, the Scarborough life-boat was launched five times and rescued every life in danger—28 in all. The detail is part of a painting of the scene presented to Scarborough Corporation in 1897 by...
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MAY 29TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
The life-boat coxswain was told by the coastguard at about 8 P.M. that a motor vessel was in difficulties about a mile to the S.S.E.
The weather was fine, but the sea was...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held an 'After Dinner at Eight' wine and savouries evening in June at the home of Mrs Margaret Adams (I.) at Herring fleet, St Olaves, to celebrate the presentation of a fund-raising... - View image in PDF
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Pictures above and below show the Longhope lifeboat, the David and Elizabeth King and E.B., just before the naming was done by Mrs. Marian Thornton, an Edinburgh solicitor's wife, who was nominated by the family of Miss Charlotte A. King... - View image in PDF
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Watched by Commander E. F. Pritchard, Jack Sims and George Mobbs at Twickenham lifeboat ball, the chairman of the branch, Robert Tough, receives donation cheques from representatives of the Scout Association (Mr Stevens, £850), the... - View image in PDF
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Huniher's most fa mini x CO.V.VM ain, Mr Robert Cross (right) on a visit to the Humber station in 1960 with (centre) th.' late Admiral Sir William Slayter, KCB, DSO, DSC, KNLI Committee of Management, and Coxswain Superintendent... - View image in PDF
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To JAMBS HASTINGS, on his retirement, after serving 14 years as Coxswain, and pre- viously 12 years as Second Coxswain, and 8 years as Bowman of the Hartlepool Life- boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To CHARLES...
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The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.12 on the morning of the 12th of De- cember, 1952, the coastguard passed on a message from Burnham Radio that two ship's boats were being driven towards Sker Point in Swansea Bay.
The...