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CAISTER, NORFOLK. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION replaced, in October last, its life-boat on this station by a new boat, the old one having become thoroughly worn out, and unfit for further service. The latter life-boat has rendered...

ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...

by courtesy of the 'Eastern Daily Press' At Wells, Norfolk, a road has been named after Coxswain Theodore Neilsen who was a famous wartime coxswain.

In 1942, for example, he searched a sinking Lancaster bomber for... - View image in PDF

JUST after two in the afternoon of 22nd April, the Cullercoats motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched on exercise. She is a boat of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 3 inches, weighing seven tons with her crew...

On the 12th December, 1858, the French lugger Louise Amelie got embayed and was driven on shore near Newcastle in a heavy gale from S.S.E.- The life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, sta- tioned at Newcastle, was...

MASTER MARINERS AND SEAMEN.

INTIMATELY connected with the work of Preservation of Life from Shipwreck is all that concerns the welfare, and tends to improve the character of the men who constitute our Mercantile Marine,...

RESCUE LAUNCH AND DINGHY TOWED TO HARBOUR Rhyl, Flintshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 30th September, 1962, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a sailing dinghy had capsized near the entrance to the harbour. At 12.40 the...