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NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Ilb Crew Member H E "Dilly" Appleton With the Youngest of 121 People Taken Off the Pleasure Cruiser Queen of the Broads Which Ra
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: ILB Crew Member H. E. "Dilly" Appleton with the youngest of 121 people taken off the pleasure cruiser Queen of the Broads which ran aground on Breydon Water in thick fog on Tuesday June 19. After being... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dutch Life-Boat Losses
Ix the gales of last November, and again in January of this year, the Dutch Life-boat Service did magnificent work, but, like our own Service, it suffered heavy loss.
The same terrible gales which struck our own coasts...
Category: Articles
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1933
IN the last issue of The Life-boat particulars were given of services to British vessels during last year by the life-boat services of Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and...
Category: Services
The Admiralty Vessel D.G.V. 400
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.6 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1959, the coastguard at Spurn Point informed the honorary secretary that two of the crew of the Admiralty vessel D.G.V.400 needed medical attention. At 3.50 the life-boat City...
Mr. Punch In 1883. Ready! A Business-Like Ballad
My Lads, lend ear! There's a yarn to spin on an old but honest text.
When round our cliffs and our headlands hoar our winter seas are vext, When the waves are lashed by the wind- flouts wild that come with the condor...
Category: Poetry
Artist Tony Hart of Bbc Tv's 'Vision On' Programme Spent Almost Two Hours Making Lightning Sketches at a Coffee Morning Organised By Guildford Branch In the City's
Artist Tony Hart of BBC TV's 'Vision On' programme spent almost two hours making lightning sketches at a coffee morning organised by Guildford branch in the city's Guildhall last September. The sketches were sold for £1... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
International Conference on the World's Life-Boat Service
The Presentation of Gold Medals and Addresses of Congratulation to the Institution.
AN International Conference on the World's Life-boat Service was held, in connexion with the Centenary of the Institution, on 1st and...
Category: Meetings
Joy
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On Whit Monday, the 29th May, 1939, 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...
London Life-Boat Day: In Trafalgar Square. Prince Henry Greeting Lady Frank
London Life-Boat Day: In Trafalgar Square Prince Henry Greeting Lady Frank. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs