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Just as ships in distress know they can depend on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in the emergency of fire the R.N.L.I.

crews themselves know they can depend upon the sure...

Leap overboard TORQUAY POLICE informed Brixham Coastguard at 1537 on October 5, 1973, that a girl was in the water off Meadfoot Beach and asked for the help of the ILB.

The message was passed to Torbay deputy launching...

A 15-foot-high stained glass window with life-boat and lighthouse themes - the work of Mr. Alfred L. Wilkinson, of Dovercourt, Essex, has been added to St.

Mary's Church, Isles of Scilly, through the generosity of Mr.... - View image in PDF

THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.

Just as ships in distress know they can depend on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in the emergency of fire the R.N.L.I, crews themselves know they can depend upon the sure and unfailing...

Plastic sheeting HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Dover lifeboat station at 0452 on Saturday October 17, 1981, that the Dutch yacht Midnight Marauder, being sailed singlehanded, was in difficulty with a fouled...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.20 A.M.

on the 13th April the coastguard telephoned that an SOS had been received from a vessel ashore on May Island. She was the steamer Island, of Copenhagen, bound, with about sixty-seven...

THE new Sennen Cove life-boat is a gift to the Life-boat Service from one of its most generous benefactors, the late Mr. Charles Carr Ashley, who died at Mentone in 1906. He bequeathed his estate to the Institution, subject to a number of...