JAN. 7TH - CLACTON-ON-SEA. AND WALTON AND FRINTON ESSEX. At about 4.38 P.M. the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties. Soon afterwards they reported that she was burning flares for help,...
It was approaching the last hour of duty for lifeguards at Pendine, Carmarthenshire, but they wouldn't be hanging up their wetsuits for the year just yet.
On 5 September 2010 John O’Boyle, James Shuttleworth and Matt...
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Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.35 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was leaking badly half a mile east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.5 the life-boat Michael and...
'It's a bit big now, but you'll grow into it in a year or two'. In fact, this is Coxswain Joseph Sassoon of Kirkcudbright showing young Ian Thomson what it is like being dressed up like a lifeboatman. He brought the clothing... - View image in PDF
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The Motor Life-boat Edward, Prince of Wales, at the Mumbles.. - View image in PDF
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SUNDEELAND.—The schooner James, of Inverness, bound for Sunderland in ballast, while making for the port during a S.S.E.
wind at 9 P.M. on the 1st of March, stranded on the outer bar of the river Wear, and made signals for...
The motor fishing boat Fife's Own put to sea on the night of the 16th July for long line fishing. The weather changed, and by noon next day a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain.
A watch was kept...
Mr. Michael Tosh has become the first man to receive the Institution's award for the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat. His report appeared in the Dundee Courier and Advertiser on nth November, 1964. In it he...
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TREATED WITH THE RESPECT (AND THE PAINTS) SHE DESERVES! The old Shields life-boat the Tyne, now preserved as shown here, is well protected with B.P.L. materials—paints which themselves hold an enviable reputation for service under the...
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(Upper left) Mrs Winifred Waring, honorary secretary of Castleford ladies' guild and president of Castleford and Normanton International Soroptimist Club, together with Miss Betty Moisly, Divisional Union President for Yorkshire... - View image in PDF
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