CHRISTMAS was a busy time for the life-boat service. On Christmas Eve the motor life-boats at St. Abbs (Ber- wickshire), Blyth (Northumberland), Sunderland (Durham) and Falmouth (Cornwall) were all launched on service, and the motor...
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Hartlepool, Durham, and Redcar, Yorkshire. — While bound from the River Tees to Blyth the motor vessel Oceanic, of Newport, Isle of Wight, damaged her steering gear and began to drift. At 1.45 in the morning of the 7th of July, when...
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 8.45 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was reported to be in difficulties three and a half miles east of Trusthorpe. Her engine had failed and there was a...
Filey, Yorkshire.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a strong westerly wind was blowing and there was a heavy swell. Local fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.34 the...
Aberystwyth, and New Quay, Cardigan- shire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the Outward Bound Sea School's ketch Golden Valley left Aberystwyth for New Quay, towing the fifty-feet fishing boat Camelia, of New Quay. At...
COXSWAIN Lionel Derek Scott and Motor Mechanic Robert Gammon of the Mumbles have each been awarded the Royal Humane Society's testi- monial on vellum for the rescue of two school teachers whose dinghy capsized on the 16th of June, 1959...
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Sir Samuel Kelly, the 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat on temporary duty at Courtmacsherry Harbour tows in Casse Tete V during the Fastnet storm. In all that day, Tuesday August 14, 1979, Courtmacsherry lifeboat, under the command of Coxswain... - View image in PDF
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The volume number for the March and June, 1968, issues of THE LIFE-BOAT should stay at Vol. XL and the pages, beginning with the March, 1968, number, should run from 313 to 360 and with the June, 1968, issue from 361 to 408. It is proposed...
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Graham Raines Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 on a service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988.
Crew Member Raines entered the water in conditions near the limit of operation for an Atlantic 21 to... - View image in PDF
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Boat Shows are a very productive source of new members - a dedicated desk and roving sellers bring in members by the hundred - after which they usually end up on the Insignia sales counter! This is the scene at the 1995 London International... - View image in PDF
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