NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.
The crew of Dover lifeboat, a/1 of whom received medals following ike service to the sinking cargo ship Sumnia on October 16, 1987. Pictured aboard the relief Tyne class Good Shepherd on the Thames before they were awarded their medals by... - View image in PDF
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1934.
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58 6 0 •••• ••••••••• •••••H B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats...
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'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore.
For a ship to the rocks is nigh. : Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...
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On Board The Humber Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Battered To Pieces on the Sands. - View image in PDF
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FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA. - View image in PDF
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Ox the morning of the 2nd of Novem- ber, 1955, the Aldeburgh no. 1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched for a routine exercise. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and there was a moderate swell.
The life-boat returned...
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d'Harcourt, President de la Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages. - View image in PDF
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THE hundred and tenth annual meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 p.m. on Friday, 20th April.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., President of the Institution, was in the...
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