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WINTER 2015 LOTTERY RESULTS
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Category: Articles
(Left) Launching at New Quay In 1946
ILeftl Launching at New Quay in 1946 This 35ft Liverpool class lifeboat was built at a cost of £961 and named William Cantrell Ashley, one of five lifeboats to be provided out a legacy of Charles Can Ashley, of Mentone, in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1870
THE Board of Trade has recently published the Wreck Register of the United Kingdom for the past year. As usual, it is a most interesting document, convey- ing much useful information on a subject of national importance.
On...
Category: Annual Reports
(Below) St.Catherine's New 17Ft 6In Zodiac Mk Iv D Class Inflatable Lifeboat
(below), St Catherine's new 17ft 6in Zodiac Mk IV D class inflatable lifeboat, drawn by the station's new Land Rover, prepares to launch after her dedication. In the background can be seen the new lifeboathouse officially opened on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hundreds of Eager Walkers Took Part In a 20-Mile Hike to Raise Funds for the Lifeboat Stations In North Kent
Hundreds of eager walkers took part in a 20-mile hike to raise funds for the lifeboat stations in North Kent. The hike, organised by the Medway branch, was started by lifeboatmen from Sheerness and the walkers tramped from Upnor Sailing Club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart: An Aspect of Sea Power
. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Sonny Boy and Gowan Bank
Early on the 13th November a strong S.S.E. gale sprang up, with a very heavy sea. As all the small fishing boats were out, the life-boat coxswain and the coastguard kept watch. All boats came in except the Sonny Boy, and at 7.30 A.M. she was...
B.S. Colling
Owing to bad weather, the only fishing boat to put to sea on the morning of the 13th January was the B.S. Colling, with a crew of three. She did not return when expected, and, as the sea was getting worse, anxiety was felt for her safety.<...
An Aeroplane (202)
DECEMBER 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea 3 miles E.N.E. of Lowestoft, but nothing was found, except a blue mitten which sank before it could be picked up. -...