ILB Launches on service during the months June, July and August 1974 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 4 and July 1.
Aberdovey, Gwynedd 1, 23, July 2, 17, 19 (twice), 20, 23, 31, August 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 19 (twice) and...
Category: Services
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
From photograph oy Captain E. W. Swan, C.B.E., V.D., D.L, R.N.y.R., a member of the Committee of Management and Chairman gj the Tynemouth Branch.. - View image in PDF
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Gifts still come in answer to the broadcast by Coxswain Henly Blogg, of Cromer, in the "Week's Good Cause" in the Home Service of the B.B.C, last March. There have now been 6800 replies amounting to £5, 260. lo....
Category: Articles
Injured climbers rescued from foot of cliffs in heavy surfThe Helmsman of Bude's inshore lifeboat, Micky Sims, has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum following the rescue of two...
This year one of the life-boat cards has been designed by an 11 - year old girl, Philippa Mary Dudgeon, of Woking, Surrey, the overall winner of a life-boat Christmas card design competition organised by the children's magazine Look and...
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RAMSGATE.—On the 2nd March, at 10.10 P.M., signal guns and rockets were fired by the Gull Lightship. The Vulcan steamtug and Bradford Life-boat went out, and were informed that a large flare light had been seen on the sands. They steered in...
Past explained: the old lifeboathouse at Brook on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, where a pulling lifeboat was kept betweeen 1860 and 1937, has for a long time had no indication of what the building was originally used for. Tourists... - View image in PDF
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Large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand at 9 P.M. on Sunday the 8th of March, and the Lightships fired guns and rockets. The No. 1 Lifeboat, Covent Garden, went to the sand, and found the three-masted schooner, Akyab, of...