On March 20 Aith, the RNLVsmost northerly station branch, held its annual Lifeboat Memorial Service, instigated by the Rev.
Magnus Cheyne following the loss of Longhope Lifeboat. (I. to r.) Kenneth Henry, coxswain Aith... - View image in PDF
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IN October, 1936, Literature of the Life-boat, by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president-of the Institution, appeared as a supplement to; The Life-boat, and. a second part appeared a year later. In these two supplements Sir...
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Spirit of Tayside, Broughty Ferry's Arun, stands by the tug Defiant while a helicopter from RAF Leuchars prepares to take off the three-man crew. (Photo courtesy Capt. I. Fyffe). - View image in PDF
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Famous Shipwrecks.
" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...
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PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Annie and Mary of Manchester was launched at 9 A.M. on the 31st January to the assistance of the trawler Lily of the West, of Douglas, which had been disabled by loss of sails. A strong wind was blowing...
LOWESTOPT, SUFFOLK.—Shortly before 8 P.M. on the 20th July a trawler, when trying to make Pakefield Gatway, struck on the N.E. part of the Newcome sands.
The coxswain of the Life-boat observed the accident, assembled the...
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Berwick » on - Tweed, Northumberland.
—Very early on the morning of the 9th March, 1938, the coastguard reported that the s.s.Locksley, of Montrose, bound from Stonehaven for Stockton-on-Tees with a cargo of oats and...
Posing for the camera are the 45 new members of Storm Force, all pupils at St Patrick's Primary School, Troon, Scotland. They are pictured with the coxswain of the local lifeboat, Ian Johnson (back row, left), the second coxswain Tom... - View image in PDF
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ON the night of the storm the coxswain of the life-boat entered the watch-house, clad in Ms black oilskin garments, and glittering with salt-water from top to too.
" There will be more work for us before long,...
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