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The Yarmouth, I.o.W., Life-Boat Alongside the Steam Yacht Medea on 2nd October, 1966
The Yarmouth LOW Life-Boat Alongside The Steam Yacht Medea On 2Nd October 1966. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (8)
MARCH 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About 3.15 in the afternoon men were seen to bale out from an aeroplane which crashed in the sea some two miles off Burnmouth. A light westerly wind...
Your shout
Dear Editor
I read the Winter 2008–9 account of the opening of Dart station with interest but some confusion.
The appeal was for £259,000 but a D class lifeboat costs £...
Category: Articles
None (1)
Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
A Brave Schoolgirl
A Holiday at Skipsea LAST summer a fifteen-year-old school- girl was holidaying at Skipsea, near Bridlington. Her home was at Baildon near Shipley, and she was staying with her parents at Sea Cabin Bungalow, Green Lane, which stood near the...
Category: Articles
Relieving a Mother's Grief
• CI should like to tell about something that has given me an enormous amount of satisfaction; I think it was one of the proudest moments in my life when they made me the coxswain —and certainly the proudest moment in my dad's life. One...
Category: Articles
Derek Lionel Scott
Derek Lionel Scott Former Mumbles coxswain (see right) Derek Scott BEM Derek joined The Mumbles lifeboat crew in 1947 following a disaster when the lifeboat overturned with the loss of all her crew. In 1950 he was made bowman, in 1952 second...
Category: Obituaries
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild. H.R.H. The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron
H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron.AT the end of 1923, H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who had already shown her personal interest in the Life-boat Service by becoming Pre- sident of the Kensington Branch on...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Appeals
A LUCKY TEN PENCE ticket has won a brand new Saab 99 Combi Coupe car for Mrs Pat Walters of Farnham, Surrey, in a competition which raised £13,000 for the new Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat. The car, donated by Saab (UK) Ltd and...
Category: Donations
A Vessel (3)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...