Cleethorpes crew (I to r): Shaun Sonley, Tony Sailers, Ian Sanderson and Gary Barlow. - View image in PDF
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THE discussion in the Press and elsewhere which followed the Rye disaster showed that the public was very far from understanding the relative merits of self-righting Life-boats and of those which do not self-right, or the reasons which...
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Whitby, Yorkshire - At 2.46 p.m.
on 9th February, 1970, it was learnt that four children were cut off by the tide between Sandsend Ness and Keldersteel point. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 3 o'clock in...
The Life-Boat Is Seen In The Foreground Returning From The Wreck. - View image in PDF
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Considerable work was needed to protect Wells' new boathouse from erosion. Greenheart is ideal for this use, and timber from the demolished slipway at Eastbourne was re-used.. - View image in PDF
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Ready and waiting... Sir John F/s/?er slung from her impressive gantry during her naming ceremony - photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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the boy with back injuries is airlifted to hospital from outside Aberdovey lifeboat station Photo: Doris O’Keefe. - View image in PDF
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 1.20 early on the morning of the 1st of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head.
At 1.45 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow was launched. There...
ANNAN WATERFOOT, DUMFRIES-SHIRE. At 11.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1943, a Beaufort aeroplane crashed and exploded in the Solway Firth, about half a mile south-east of Annan Waterfoot. The sea was calm, with a light westerly...
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