Lifeboat away ! It was the roughest weather in which the Dungeness boat has ever been launched.. - View image in PDF
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SHAKESPEARE compares England to a fortress, and the Channel to a moat; but if he saw the leviathan steamers now coming up that channel, he would be the first to acknowledge that the comparison did not hold good in the present day. We do not...
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Popularity has grown steadily for the Petworth clay pigeon shoot and in the five years the competition has been held more than £1,500 has been amassed for the RNLI. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution,... - View image in PDF
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Launches 64 Lives rescued 28
JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on...
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Barrow, Lancashire.—At 4.17 on the morning of the 14th of May, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that the Morecambe Bay light- vessel had asked for the life-boat as a member of her crew was seriously ill.
At...
(Below) Exercise with an RN helicopter from HMS Daedalus was included in the programme.. - View image in PDF
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JULY MEETING SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX About 3.50 in the afternoon of the 25th May, 1940, a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, capsized when they were changing seats about 400 yards off shore. They succeeded in reaching a boat...
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Portpatrick Life-Boat In Harbour. - View image in PDF
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Plymouth Life-Boat In Harbour. - View image in PDF
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