Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 a.m. on ist October, 1966, the captain of the motor vessel Ems Ore, of Monrovia, asked for police and medical help. At 9.45 the life-boat Solomon Browne launched in a fresh north westerly breeze and slight sea. The...
Hartlepool Crew Fire Line-Throwing Pistol. - View image in PDF
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Fig 7: Medal Of 1902 Obverse. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 3 1 ST AND FEBRUARY 1 ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11 A.M.on the 31st of January the naval control reported that the National Fire Service float Gladys, lying half a mile west of the pier, was driving on to the sands, and at...
MAN WAS MISSING Torbay, South Devon. At 3.8 p.m.
on ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized off Livermead Beach. A further message was received that two men had...
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept In roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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detail from a poster published after World War I showing lifeboat services to ships mined, torpedoed or wrecked as a result of the war.. - View image in PDF
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XXVII.—DUNDALK.
Stoctport Sunday School, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
THIS Life-boat Station is on a low flat shore, three miles south of Soldiers' Point, the southern side of the...
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Crowds flocked to Moelfre lifeboat station on 29 August to witness the naming and dedication of the station's new D class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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