(Above) The righting displays are always popular - Three burly crew members are enough to persuade a D class to come the right way up.. - View image in PDF
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Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
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OCTOBER 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
About four in the afternoon the coastguard reported that H.M.S. Albatross was towing the sailing barge Monarch and had asked that the life-boat should go out, take over, and tow her into...
In the New Year Honours List, the BEM was awarded to Frank Moore, motor mechanic of Barrow lifeboat since 1954. He was assistant motor mechanic at Barrow from 1937 to 1953.
* * * It is with deep regret that we announce the...
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Robert Barr OBE, whose charitable trust funded the St Abbs Atlantic 21 lifeboat Dorothy and Katherine Barr..
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By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HOPE that no one who receives this issue of The Life-Boat will fail to read the story of Victor Rojas, well named " The Providence of the Shipwrecked,"...
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A MEETING of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society was held at their offices, Hibernian Chambers, London Bridge, on the 26th February last, His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, President, in the chair, the following members of...
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At 7.20 A.M. on the llth January rockets were observed in the direction of the Cross Sand light- vessel, and while the crew of the Life- boat were being assembled, a message was received by wireless telegraphy stating that a vessel was...
The Eastbourne Museum Opened In The Old "William Terriss Memorial Lif E-Boathouse " In 1937 and Temporarily Closed Shortly After War Broke Out In September 1939. - View image in PDF
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The Scarborough Thanksgiving Service. - View image in PDF
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