The first steps inside the new National Collection of lifeboats tell you that this is something very special. Here, for the first time anywhere in the world, the history of a nation's lifeboats and the men who took them to sea is laid...
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Recently I came across some old photographs which I am sending to you hoping they will be of interest. In 1937 we were spending a family holiday in St Ives, Cornwall, and one day during our first week we found ourselves, with other holiday... - View image in PDF
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The following awards appeared in the New Year Honours List: M.B.E.
Mr. H. Morrison, who is the local postmaster, became honorary secretary of the Barra Island life-boat station in 1946.
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Blyth lifeboatmen try out a Rother lifeboat at Swanage: (above, I. to r.) Lt Alan Tate, divisional inspector of lifeboat (NE), Assistant Mechanic John Scott, Motor Mechanic Colin Cuthbertson, and Crew Members Les Fay, George Turner, Tom Moss... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 24TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 in the afternoon a fisherman telephoned from Melvick that a fishing boat was in distress about seven miles east of Port Skerra, and the motor life-boat...
Dogged determination Liverpool coastguards contacted Douglas lifeboat station at 0824 on 2 January 2000 to advise that they had received several calls reporting the sighting of a black dog marooned on St Mary's rocks, on which stands the...
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LIFEBOAT SMALL ADS TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR WAY THE PRISMATIC HAND-HELD MARCHING COMPASS This brass compass is made in England to an extremely high standard of specification and is an improved version of the 'Standard Service Type...
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llfracombe - South Division More vie A/s of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
llfracombe. on the north Devon coast, is seen from the west in this view, taken towards high water. The Inner Harbour dries completely at low...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—About ten o'clock on the night of the 17th of August, 1952, the motor cruiser En- chantress struck the rocks near Stack- poole Head and became a wreck. She had a party of six aboard, and two young men managed to...