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Thanks from British Railways
The British Railways IRB station, which was established in May, 1968, on the south side of the River Tay to provide protection for the teams of workmen on the bridge, receives training assistance from the Droughty Ferry...
Category: Donations
An Ex-Ship's Life-Boat
Ramsgate, Kent - At 1.53 p.m. on 6th June, 1967, it was learned that a boat was in difficulties off the beach and the crew were firing flares. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irzoin, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings...
Pinta
JULY 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a...
Lifeboat Services from Page 82
from page 82 ties, exhausted by the strength of the tide and the coldness of the water. He towed them to Cowloe Rocks, which were much nearer than the shore, and told them to clamber over the top to the shoreward side while he paddled his...
Category: Services
Profile.,,
• MAJOR John Showell-Rogers, R.M., is the station honorary secretary at Poole, Dorset, where there is a 35-foot 6-inch Liverpool type life-boat, the George Elmy, and a Dell Q.uay dory inshore life-boat with the hull number...
Category: Articles
Zeehond (2)
Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.
—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...
A Firefly Aeroplane (1)
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Classifieds
Classifieds RNLLDVD in trte» Lifeboats seen Featuring the building and never-before-seen action of the RN Li's latest ail weather and inshore lifeboats Tamar and Atlantic 85 £9.99 inep&p Please send this slip with a cheque...
Category: Advertisement
Service to North Sea Oil Rig
THE members of the crews of the Scarborough and Teesmouth life-boats have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for their services on the...
Category: Services
National Prize-Winner
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent presents the first prize in the Institution's essay competition to Miss Lesley Perry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs