MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in diffi- culties about three miles off Penmaen- mawr. The life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella...
BOY TRAPPED ON A CLIFF Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 9.5 in the evening of February 22nd, 1947, the police telephoned" that a boy was stranded on the cliff-face north of Aberystwyth and that the National Fire Service had failed to find...
PORT LOGAN, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—It will be remembered that in the number of the Life-Boat Journal issued in Novem- ber last it was mentioned that the boat on this station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the latest self-righting type...
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LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, will again be open this year. Life-boat workers will be doing the Institution a real service if they will bring this to the notice of any friends who are visiting London during the...
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Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 12.45 A.M.
on the 18th December, 1938, the coastguard reported that a trawler was ashore in a bad position near North Gare Breakwater, and was making distress signals. She was the steam trawler...
A month later, on the night of 22nd December, the Gorleston Motor Life-boat was launched with a full blowing from the N.E. and a gale very got up very o'clock. The ketch Henrietta, of Goole, was lying in the Yarmouth Roads with two...
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND HARWICH.
—The Honourable Artillery Company Lifeboat, stationed at Walton, was summoned by a telegram from the Sunk Light-ship, on the 4th December, stating that signals of distress were seen S.W. of...
Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, who died last February, had been Honorary Secretary of the Cemaes Bay District since 1921. Before that he had been the Honorary Treasurer for many years. He was an enthusiastic worker, organizing several...
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Self-righting.—I come now to the explanation of a property which, by comparison, is a novel one, although more than two-thirds of the life-boats in the United Kingdom are now provided with it,— a property the value of which has been disputed...
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