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Category: Articles
Bien
SIXTEEN SCOUTS RESCUED Exmouth, Devon. At 7.35 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that Niton radio station had received a message from the motor fishing vessel Bien that she had engine trouble and was steering badly ten...
An Aeroplane (39)
NOVEMBER 19TH. - NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £10 8s.
An Aeroplane (33)
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - WALMER, KENT. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £11 1s. 6d.
A Lady's Line-Throwing Guns
THE Institution recently received from a lady in Hampstead, London, a gift of £40, which is to provide the line- throwing apparatus and searchlight in the motor life-boat now being built for Boulmer, Northumberland. Since 1923 the same...
Category: Donations
Two Cobles
During a strong westerly gale and rough sea on | the 28th January two cobles were j observed in the bay, one coble towing j the other. As the weather was very : bad the Life-boat Cape of Good Hope : was launched and proceeded to the disabled...
A Sudden Gale
The Scarborough life-boat goes out to the help of fishing boats on the 9th of February, 1949. - View image in PDF
(See page 288.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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BODY FOUND St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.11 p.m. on 15th September, 1965, a man was reported trapped on the rocks to the north of Portheras Cove and at 5.30 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched with the honorary medical...
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Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1960, the police told the honorary secretary that a man had fallen into the sea from the cliffs at Brean Down.
As the exact position was not...