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YEARS OF THEIR LIVES - CORRECTION
Many thanks to reader Mark Harvey who contacted us about the main image for the Years of Their Lives feature in the last edition. According to our archive...
Category: Articles
Swedish Journey
THIS is the story of a cruise among the islands of the West Coast of Sweden in August, 1950, by the ex Royal National life-boat Henry Frederick Swan, and her crew of Sea Scouts.
Henry Frederick Sivan, which is a 40 foot...
Category: Articles
Aubie
Crew member swims to stranded yacht Wells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...
New Ways of Raising Money
When the Barnt Green ladies' life-boat guild had their annual meeting the collecting box from the Barnt Green sailing club was opened. It contained over £3 —mostly in half-crowns. This is because there is a local rule in the sailing...
Category: Donations
None (1)
Valentia, Co. Kerry—On the 24th of March, 1950, the Commissioners of the Irish Lights asked the life-boat to relieve the Skelligs Rocks and Inish- tearaght Rocks Lighthouses as, by arrangement with the Commissioners, she had been made...
Bostonian VII
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 12th of August, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen four and a half miles south-east-by-east of Shoreham Harbour. At 9.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and-Phyllis...
A Steamer (19)
MARCH 17TH. - PORT ST. MARY, AND DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. A steamer had stranded, near Fort Island, Isle of Man, but the crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards : Port St. Mary, £25 8s. 9d. ;...
A Minesweeper (5)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A minesweeper had been blown up by a mine, and the life-boat put out.
The sea was rough, and an air raid was in progress. Bombs fell near the life-boat. She searched for some hours...
Royal Summer
'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...
Category: Inaugurations
British Diligence
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 1.40 in the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker entering St. Ives Bay was sig- nalling for a doctor. No other boat was available, so at 2.5, in fine weather and a calm sea, the...