Shortly after 5 A. M, on the llth October, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Sizewell Bank, and the No. 2 Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched. A strong S.E. by E. wind was blowing, and a nasty sea was breaking on the Sand...
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A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £23 1s. 6d..
The assembled lifeboats steam in line astern up the Oslofjord, framed by the rigging of Christian Radich carrying conference delegates.. - View image in PDF
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Poole lifeboats Inner Wheel and Sam and Iris Coles, involved in a sub-zero search of Poole Harbour for two missing fishermen in January. photograph by courtesy of John Buckley. - View image in PDF
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During the year life-boats were launched 1,081 times. Of these launches 640 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war.
The Record Month by Month 1940 January...
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Members of the St Helier lifeboat crew, who raised £.3,000 towards the cost of the new lifeboat to be placed in Jersey through a sponsored row to Guernsey. Pictured here (extreme left) is Mr A. Alexandra, manager of the St Helier branch... - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held an 'After Dinner at Eight' wine and savouries evening in June at the home of Mrs Margaret Adams (I.) at Herring fleet, St Olaves, to celebrate the presentation of a fund-raising... - View image in PDF
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CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. — The brigantine Anna Sarah, of Ipswich, while on her way from Ardrossan to a French port, with a cargo of coal, was overtaken by a gale from the S.S.E., when off the Maidens, on the coast of Ireland, and her sails...
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High seas healing up against Scarborough hoatliouse doors in the January storms. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dennis Dobson.. - View image in PDF
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