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Rfd Mills Equipment Limited
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Category: Advertisement
The Queen Mother at the Wheel of the Thurso Life-Boat, the Three Sisters, After the Naming Ceremony Last Year. With Her Is Coxswain Gilbert Reid. the Harbour Scene Shows the Ceremony In Pro
The Queen Mother at the wheel of the Thurso life-boat, The Three Sisters, after the naming ceremony last year.
With her is Coxswain Gilbert Reid. The harbour scene shows the ceremony in progress and the 48-foot 6-inch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Right Spirit
OVERHEARD in the street on Cromer Life-boat Day : " Have you got plenty of coppers ? Because to every along." we shall have to give flag-seller who comes.
Category: Donations
Pallas and Nelly
BROADSTAIRS.—At 6 A.M. on the 18th Sept., when it was blowing hard from the N.E., in reply to signals of distress exhibited from the North Sand Head lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, and standing off under sail,...
Brighton Naming
Radio and television commentator Brian Johnston and his wife visited Brighton to name the local inshore life-boat the St. Marylebone Dolphin. Mrs. Johnston is chairman of the St.
Marylebone life-boat branch which raised the...
Category: Inaugurations
An American Tribute.
On March 2nd, 1941, the "New Yovk Times" published a leading aiticlt on the work of the British Life-boat Service: "The R.N.L.I." it said, "has been called the noblest of England's charitable societies. Though...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (7)
OCT. 26TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
A whole N.E. by N. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea in Eyemouth Bay. Four local fishing boats were waiting to enter the port. The motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was...
Sir John Lister
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.38 P.M. on the 6th April the Donna Nook coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore north of Donna Nook beacon.
A gentle breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, but there was a very dense fog. The...
February (1)
DOWNINGS, CO. DONEGAL. While out fishing off Innisboffin Island on the 27th of November, 1942, the motor fishing boat Star of Hope, of Downings, foundered and sank while her herring nets were being hauled, and a fresh north-west breeze was...
Category: Services
Arbroath Memorial
A BRONZE plaque has been erected in the storm wall of the fish quay at Arbroath harbour to commemorate the disaster in which six members of the crew of the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay lost their lives on the 27th of October,...
Category: Articles