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At 6.5 A.M. on the 16th February the coxswain heard that a sailing trawler was ashore on the south beach. He went to the coast- guard look-out, and then to the life- boat pier and saw the trawler on the beach, rolling heavily in a ground...
MR. HOWARD PRIMROSE KNIGHT, who died on the 23rd of November, 1956, served in the Ramsgate life-boat for more than twenty-three years. He was coxswain from 1935 to 1946, and for his services in helping to bring off some 2,800 men from the...
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AUG. 16TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A dinghy, with two men on board, had been reported as being carried out to sea by the strong tide. The motor life-boat put out in charge of Captain Sir Charles Campbell, Bt., in the absence of the...
SINCE the issue of the Parliamentary Report last July, which stated that the charges of mismanagement brought against the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION with regard to the Life-boat Saturday Fund were " entirely without...
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Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
(Lower right) The RNLI's Display Co-ordinator Liam McKenna has every right to look exhausted as Saturday draws to a close - most of the vast burden of organising the event falls on his shoulders.. - View image in PDF
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— On the 6th March during a strong S.W.
gale Coxswain J. Cameron, of the new motor Life-boat Alexander Tullocli, observed a small fishing-boat in a perilous position about four miles to the north of Peterhead. Her sails had...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a United States aircraft was in difficulties off Orfordness and that her pilot might have to bale...
Two figures, representing lifeboatmen of 1882 and 1982 and sculptured by Bernard Schwartz, are being produced b The History of Porcelain Company, High Street, Shoreham Village, Sevenoaks, Kent ("Tel: Otford 3416). Until September 1982... - View image in PDF
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