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Hot News from Yorkshire
This year's Great Yorkshire Show held in July must have been one of the hottest on record and many thousands of visitors travelled to Harrogate for this popular agricultural show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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FEBRUARY 6TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
A very heavy explosion had been heard five to six miles E.S.E. of Aldeburgh.
The life-boat found a large patch of oil or coal dust and followed it for two miles, but...
Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Developed By Rnli from a Design Originated at Atlantic College South Wales Hull Flat-Bottomed for Beaching Is Marine Ply Or Grp With Infla
Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat developed by RNLI from a design originated at Atlantic College, South Wales. Hull, flat-bottomed for beaching, is marine ply or grp with inflatable topsides. Console seat for crew of three contains radio. Speed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four New Life-Boats Named
HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, named the new Berwick-upon-Tweed life-boat William and Mary Durham on the 25th of July, 1957. The ceremony took place at Spittal harbour.
Category: Inaugurations
Index to the Branches
PAGE ABERDARE. . . 583 ABERDEEN , . .557 ABERDOVEY . . 585 ABERSOOH . . . 581 ABERYSTWITH 579, 580 ACCRINGTON . . 506 ACKERGILL . . 561 ALDEBURQB . . 534 ALLOA . . . . 561 ALNMOUTH. . . 527 ANGLE . . . . 685 ANGLESEY . . .679 ANSTRUTHEB . ....
Category: Branches
Hyannis Massachusetts to Rockland Maine By M G K Pennell
THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
Category: Articles
Four Months of Gales. 174 Launches; 194 Lives Rescued.
THE past winter has been remarkable for a succession of terrible westerly gales. In their frequency and intensity they have been unequalled during the present century. October opened with gales on eight successive days, from the 1st to the...
Category: Services
More Flowers for the Life-Boats
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat mention was made of the substantial sum which the Honorary Secretary at Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton had raised by the sale at the Boathouse of flowers from his garden. Now we have heard from another...
Category: Donations
Naming Ceremonies
St Ives - Mersey class The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 41) The importance of the naming ceremony for St Ives' Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41) was recognised by the weather, which slipped in a warm,...
Category: Inaugurations
The Motor Fleet
THE progress in construction and the results in the past year of the work of the Motor-Boats now on the coast are very satisfactory, and we now give a revised Table of the Motor-Boats with the motors installed in them. A comparison •of this...
Category: Articles