Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 2.35 p.m. on 14th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four cobles, one of which had 25 passengers on board, were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
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The letter from the honorary secretary of Bodmin and District branch, published in the autumn 1976 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, amused us all here in Trowbridge because the report closely followed our own flag day...
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HRH The Duchess of Kent Presents The Bronze Medal For Gallantry To Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie of Ramsgate. - View image in PDF
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Demonstrations of lifeboat I helicopter co-ordination exercises were part of the programme . . . the RAF visit Pelworlh spectacular.. - View image in PDF
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Stormy Stan drums up interest for the Lifeboats of the Clyde appeal with a tempting supply of biscuits. - View image in PDF
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1937.
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67 4 0 m mi—mmm — mmm- —i —*—— — Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-...
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JULY 27TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The fishing boat May Lily was overdue No news about her could be obtained and at three in the afternoon a request was made for aeroplanes to search.
They returned...
Lifeboat Crews Receive The Highest Standard Of Training. - View image in PDF
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MARYPORT.—On the 29th August the barque Italiana, of Nuova Rosa, got ashore on Seaton Point, near Workington, during a fresh breeze at N.W. A boat from the neighbouring coast put off to give assistance, but was capsized, and 3 men on board...
On the following night the same life-boat again put off, in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the crew, consisting of 13 men, from the barque Caroline Eliza- beth, of London, which had stranded on the South Steel rocks...