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Can You Identify This Lifeboat, the Location, Or Even the Date?
Can you identify this lifeboat, the location, or even the date? The photos were found recently with no identifying details and the lifeboat's name cannot be read from the prints.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hood
Gourdon, Kincardineshire At 4.20 A.M. on the 12th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Hood, of Aberdeen, was ashore about half a mile east of Johnshaven.
She had a crew of eleven on board and was...
April (1)
APRIL MEETING EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. About seven in the evening of the 21st of March, 1945, two boys, aged 17 and 15, put off from the shore in a home-made canoe. The sea was calm, with some fog. About half a mile off shore, opposite the...
Category: Services
Ancora
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.10 on the morning of the 1st of December, 1955, the coastguard reported that a ship had run ashore between Boulmer and Craster. At 4.55 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, with the second coxswain in...
Foresters support SOS
The financial solutions company Foresters is lending a helping hand to this year’s SOS Day by sponsoring fundraising material for schools. Mailings, SOS champion packs for Storm Force members and a host of online downloads hope to encourage...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday workers through- out the country, after reviewing the year's campaign thus far conducted, may well congratulate themselves on the very satisfactory results they have secured.
Taking all things...
Category: Articles
Contents
Contents Swanage Centenary 41 Lifeboat Services 42 Volume XLIV Annual Awards 1974 46 4 JO Twelfth International Lifeboat Conference by Patrick Howarth 48 Scottish Lifeboat Council Annual General Meeting 49 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H....
Category: Contents
Vertrouwen
Injured fisherman LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Barrow lifeboat station at 2232 on Monday July 16, 1979, that there was an injured crew member aboard the motor fishing vessel Vertrouwen, 18 miles west of Walney...
The Life-Boat Stamp Club
THE Life-boat Stamp Club, which was started at the end of 1933 by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Qommon, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch of the Institution, now has a branch of its own at Cromer. This branch...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 9 September 1992 show that so far during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 4,338 times (an average of more than 13 launches a day) 1,141 lives have been saved (an average of more...
Category: Articles