at her renaming ceremony in Tallin just I a week later (below).. - View image in PDF
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Visits by French, Dutch and Spanish delegations, on behalf of their respective lifeboat societies, took place in November and January.
The Netherlands delegation, headed by the Director of the North and South Holland...
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Above: 'A Life-boat Rescue with the Help of the Life-Saving Net' by Charles Pears RQI, published in 1924.
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.25 on the night of the 6th of January, 1951, the Spurn Point coastguard reported a message from Kilnsea coastguard that a vessel was ashore half a mile north of the coastguard station. The night was very dark, but the...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.57 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a Dutch motor vessel was in distress twelve miles east-south-east of Lowes- toft. • She was listing heavily. At 4.15 the life-boat...
Appledore Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat breasts heavy surf in Bideford Bay. She was donated by RAF personnel and their families stationed at Wildenrath, Germany, who raised more than £5,000 for the RNLI in just one... - View image in PDF
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(continued from page 12) accorded to Coxswain Ronald J. Hardy and Emergency Mechanic Phillip J.
Dorey. Vellum service certificates were presented to Second Coxswain/Motor Mechanic Victor A. C. Marsh, Assistant Mechanic Eric...
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TORQUAY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October it was reported that the fishing smack Black Cat, of Paignton, was hanging on to her nets, in great danger,' off that place, having been in that positionsince the commencement of the gale, which...
In appreciation...
Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...
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on the 8th February the Coastguard reported that a fishing vessel was ashore about four miles to the eastward of Newhaven Harbour. The weather was moderate, but as the sea was making and the wind freshening, the motor Life- boat Michael...