R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 a 46' 9" midship steering Watson lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Beken and Son. - View image in PDF
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HRH The Duke of Kent talks to medallists and voluntary workers at a reception following the presentations. - View image in PDF
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Another ticket, another joke: (I to r) Peter Holness, fund raising projects manager, Max Bygraves and Anthony Oliver, appeals secretary.. - View image in PDF
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Left to right: Declan Gaudion, Wayne Chandler, Francois Jean, Phil Murray, David McAllister and Marie Gaudion, Alderney D class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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'WE would like to give a donation . . .'.
Welcome words to anyone who has a hand in raising money for the R.N.L.I., and we hear them often at the various functions arranged by ladies' guilds, branches and...
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ABERSOCH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
Category: Services
Disaster to the Rye Life-boat.
The Whole Crew Drowned.
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant...
Blyth, Northumberland.
THE Blyth Life-boat Station was established in 1826, when the Newcastle Branch Association applied to the Institution for a Life-boat, and the Station was taken over by the Institution in 1866. It has...
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On the 10th October the coastguard at Ballyquinton reported that a small fishing boat, of Portaferry, with one man on board, was in immediate danger inside the bar at Ballyquinton Point. A strong W.N.W.
gale was blowing,...
Barrow, Lancashire. — At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th of November, 1951, the agents of the tanker Merrimac, of New York, re- ported that she had wirelessed that she had a sick man on board in need of a doctor. She would be...