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Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
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Newspaper Award for Best Account of a Life-Boat Service
The Royal National Life-boat Institution's award for what was, in the Institution's judgment, the best factual account of a service by a life-boat to appear in a newspaper in 1965 has been made to Air. T. G. Barker of the Whitby...
Category: Awards
Before Performing the Ceremony Commander Ralph Swann Was Presented By Former Weymouth Coxswain Mr F J Palmer With a Framed Photograph O/Tony Vanderv
. . . before performing the ceremony, Commander Ralph Swann was presented by former Weymouth coxswain Mr F. J. Palmer with a framed photograph o/Tony Vandervell in Portland Race. With them are Lieut.- Commander B. F. Morris, honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Civil Service Life-Boat for Wales
FOR many years there have been Civil Service life-boats on the coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland, but up to the present there has been none on the coast of Wales. As it was the wish of the committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund...
Category: Articles
Five Hundred People Attending Gorleston Lifeboat Hall Gave a Big 'send Off to a Mammoth Fund-Raising Event By- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No 41 The
Five hundred people attending Gorleston lifeboat hall gave a big 'send off to a mammoth fund-raising event by- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No. 41.
The Tabler.i aim to raise £10,000 for the Institution... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Remura
AUGUST 27TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that a vessel eight miles from Kinnaird Head required help. A fresh W.N.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was choppy. At 11.40 P.M...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat on this station has been replaced by a new 10-oared Life-boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, constructed according to the latest designs. The cost of the new Life-boat, which is named the Tom and Ida,...
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Ben Bheula
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the morning of the 16th of March, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard reported a message from McArthur's Head Lightr house that a vessel was flashing S.O.S.
signals one mile from the...