Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's life-boat named Joybell, on a pleasure fishing trip to Les Minquiers.
They did not return when expected and some anxiety was felt. Next...
The Board of Trade have prepared a scheme for the issue of boatmen's licenses to people in charge of small passenger vessels which ply in inland or in estuarial waters, or go only short distances to sea.
The scheme,...
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NORTH DEAL, KENT • AND FETHARD, Co. WEXFORD.—The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these stations have recently been replaced by new boats— the North Deal boat being a large sail- ing boat of the self-righting type, named the Charles...
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SPONSORED WALK OVER £35,000 has been raised so far by the National Sponsored Walk organised by the Central Appeals Committee which took place on Sunday, 18th April, 1971. By the time all the money has been received—40 branches have...
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I thought you might enjoy seeing this rather different picture of the Dungeness lifeboat.
I took it during the Parade of the Services that was part of the Queen's jubilee celebrations on 4 June. A great day and it was... - View image in PDF
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 226 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE 227 TWENTY-SEVEN HOURS ON SERVICE . . . . 228 AWARD TO WEYMOUTH DOCTOR 231 TWO SUSSEX IRB RESCUES . . 232 H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA 234 WHY PUT...
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TWO YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED Hastings, Sussex. At 12.15 p.m. on Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the skipper of the fishing vessel Rose that a small sailing dinghy had apparently capsized and that there was the body of...
THE Institution has sent a framed letter of thanks and £1 to Corporal David Aitken, a 15-year-old member of the Glasgow Jewish Lads' Brigade Cadets, for bravely helping to save a woman who fell into the Tweed last...
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WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
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Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1953, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned a message to the Caister life- boat station from Palling that a vessel had gone ashore half...