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Mike Eacott Licensee of the Crown Hotel North Scale Barrow-In-Furness His Barmaid and 12 'Regulars' Determined to Do Something Special for Barrow Lifeboat Took Lessons In Parachute Jumpi
Mike Eacott, licensee of the Crown Hotel, North Scale, Barrow-in-Furness, his barmaid and 12 'regulars', determined to do something special for Barrow lifeboat, took lessons in parachute jumping, then raised £1,800 in... - View image in PDF
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Delphic Eagle, of Monrovia
At 8.45 p.m. on 13th June, 1968, the coxswain learnt that a sick man aboard the m.v. Delphic Eagle, at anchor in Bull anchorage, needed medical assistance. The life-boat City of Bradford HI, with a doctor on board, was launched at 9.20 in a...
Form, of Liverpool
On the same evening during a heavy gale from the N.W., the Life-boat Princess of Wales on this station put off to the brigantine Form, of Liverpool, in reply to her signals of distress, and landed her crew of 6 men. The vessel was in the...
The Weather Ship Weather Adviser
Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.10 on the morn- ing of the 6th May, 1961, the meteoro- logical office at Prestwick airport in- formed the honorary secretary that the weather ship Weather Adviser, on passage to the Clyde, had reported a man overboard...
Golden Lily
At 5.45 A.M. on the morning of 23rd Sep- tember the coxswain observed a fishing- boat approaching the harbour in a strong S.S.E. wind with a very heavy sea.
The boat was struck by successive seas and thrown on to the Annat...
The Hull Steam Trawler King's Grey
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 1.50 P.M.
on the 21st October, 1937, during a lift in a dense fog, a vessel was seen to run hard aground on the beach near the life-boat house. The wind was light and the sea slight. The motor...
Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies
BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
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The Mayor of Southend Congratulates Coxswain Page
(see page 187). - View image in PDF
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Four Elder Brethren of Trinity House Visited Rnli Hq and Poole Lifeboat on December 6 With Members of Poole Crew Are (L to R) Lieut-Commander K S Pattisson Hono
Four Elder Brethren of Trinity House visited RNLI HQ and Poole lifeboat on December 6. With members of Poole crew are (I. to r.) Lieut.-Commander K. S. Pattisson, honorary secretary, Major- General Farrant, Captain 1. R. C. Sounders, Captain... - View image in PDF
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Sally Green, of Liverpool
The schooner Sally Green, of Liverpool, stranded near this life-boat station during a fresh gale from E.S.E. on the 30th April. She would probably have previously sunk and become a total wreck, had not the Sophia life-boat gone off to her,...