The 82-year-old Bedford, one of the world's oldest life-boats, being prepared last year for transport from her shed at South Shields, Co. Durham, to the Exeter museum.. - View image in PDF
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At 10.20 A.M. on the llth May it was reported that a steamer was ashore on the rocks near Northcott Mouth. The sea was smooth, but the fog was very dense at the time.
The Life-boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was launched, and...
Very much an Inshore Lifeboat...
West Kirby's D class inflatable took the term Inshore Lifeboat literally on 14January 1991, when the crew took her 14 miles by road and through the Mersey Tunnel to rescue a boy and his...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.35 on the morning of the 6th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of four had been reported in difficulties some fifteen miles south- east of St....
JULY 13TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. At 9.15 in the evening the Hartland Point coastguard reported a cabin cruiser apparently broken down, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched in a moderate north-westerly wind, with a...
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
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Voluntary Worker puts To Sea From The Rnli's Poole Depot After Her Naming and Dedication Ceremony On 23 September. - View image in PDF
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Peter Chennell (left) controls operations from Poole while Terry Burden (right) makes sure that all runs smoothly in Thirsk. - View image in PDF
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CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 15th April seventeen of the fishing cobles were out, chiefly engaged with the crab pots, when the sea began to rise. Six of the boats returned before the sea leached its height, one of these...
THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...
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