THE coxswain at Eastbourne has received a picture postcard from Sweden: " Many hearty greetings to you and warm thanks for wonderful rescue of 1930 to all from B. Lindfors." The postcard had a picture of Trafalgar...
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Ponies and carriage lent to the branch by Mr. Herbert Hagenback, of the Tower Circus, Blackpool.. - View image in PDF
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The Lowestoft life-boat towing in the motor-cruiser Dimajl. - View image in PDF
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Weymouth, Dorset.—At 12.5 in the afternoon of the 27th of March, 1949, the Portland Bill coastguard reported a small motor yacht in distress, apparently broken down and drifting.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat William...
From the painting presented to the Museum by his daughter, Lady Hicks. - View image in PDF
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At 6.10 P.M.
on the 18th September, one of the Life-boat Crew reported to the Cox- swain that a small yacht, the Thrush, of Hull, had stranded on the end -of Spurn Point. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight...
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October. 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a local man had put off in his fishing coble Isabella to attend to his crab-pots in bad weather. The weather was deteri- orating...
Arbroath, Angus.—About 11.45 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that fishing boats were still at sea in deteriorating weather and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The life-boat Robert...
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—Beginning on the evening of the 31st of January, 1953, floods inun- dated areas in the east of England to an extent unknown in this country in living memory. The Southend-on- Sea life-boat was...
A deckhand from the Grimsby trawler Riviere being brought ashore from the Flamborough life-boat (See page 567). - View image in PDF
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