The ninth international life-boat con- ference was held in Edinburgh from 4th to 6th June, 1963. Apart from the British delegation there were repre- sentatives of sixteen nations present. Of the European countries there were delegations from...
Category: Meetings
WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...
Category: Services
MAY 1989: Miss B. Openshaw, committee member of Penwortham branch for more than 20 years..
Category: Obituaries
Les Coyde, founder member and first honorary secretary of the Port Talbot station branch from 1966 to 1971..
Category: Obituaries
APRIL 1995 Mrs Eva Hanson, founder member of Staithes & Runswick ladies' guild. She was awarded a Silver badge in 1967..
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John Yates, Heavy Woollen branch founder member and box secretary from 1985 until his death..
Category: Obituaries
Robert Charlton, son of Llandudno crew member Keith, recently won the Welsh region under 18s Nationwide Award for Voluntary Endeavour.. - View image in PDF
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Members of East Devon Artists for Charity exhibited their work at Brancombe and Seaton in 1999 to raise money for the lifeboats.
The exhibitions, which involved considerable work in setting up and manning, raised the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At 8 A.M. on the 13th December a large barque, which proved to be the Mermaid, of Cardiff, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of timber—was seen at anchor just clear of the banks lying at the mouth of the Eibble, and displaying...