The late Coxswain Eric Pengilly of Sennen Cove, awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the sen-ice to Union Crystal.. - View image in PDF
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Persons Time of rescued from 1927. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 5. 9.30 a.m. Motor yawl Provider, of Holy Island. Holy Island No. 1 Life-boat escorted boat into harbour.
„ 19. 8.10 a.m. Boat of S.S. Bilton,...
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Thursday, 1st Sept., 1864. Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Keward...
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UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...
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February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow At about 7 P.M. on the 15th December, 1935, five men in the 30-feet motor boat St.
Brendan were engaged hauling their nets when cries for help were heard from...
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For the third year Ray Rushton offered his car, a 1904 Wolseley, to the RNLI for sponsorship in last November's Veteran Car Run. His passenger was Charlie Smithers, Comedian of The Year in 1974. More than £3,000 was raised. In... - View image in PDF
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WHEN 1 first visited Ring, Co. Waterford, in 1925, the Helvick Life-boat was housed at road-level in a kind of hanger built out over the water on stilts. A barometer was fixed outside, with the two legends familiar to seamen—'First rise...
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Gordon Stokes, chairman of Burton-on-Trent branch, recently received a cheque for £410 from John Tester of Burton Diving Club.
The money had been collected from a crowd watching the diving club's annual raft race... - View image in PDF
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To come last in a race and still earn £457.24 for the lifeboats cannot be bad. This entrv in a charitv pram race held between 17 Hampsiead pub teams was dressed up to look (something) like a Waveney class lifeboat and although it came... - View image in PDF
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