Dover, Kent. At 5.25 on the evening of the 13th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a local fishing boat was mis- sing off Folkestone. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out at 6.3 it was low water....
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY On the 29th January, 1940, the Moelfre life-boat rescued the crew of sixty of the S.S. Gleneden, of Glasgow.
COXSWAIN JOHN MATTHEWS was awarded the silver medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC ROBERT...
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Lower One The Inevitable Result. - View image in PDF
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A detail from a painting by Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants, of the last moments of the Longhope life-boat before the seas lifted her up so that she was found hours later upturned..
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Thursday, 16th May, 1935.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Captain Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, Bt., C.B., D.S.O., R.N.V.R., a member of the committee of management.
Received...
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SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat Duncan was launched from this station at 6 A.M. on the 10th October last, and rescued 2 men from a perilous position on board the fishing smack Gleaner. A sudden storm had compelled a number of fishing...
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Cresting the waves: Ms magnificent photograph of the St Peter Port lifeboat Sir William Arnold was sent to THF. LIFEBOAT by Guernsey photographer Brian Green and shows the IV73-buill 52ft Arun in full cry, with Coxswain Peter Bisson at the... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 23RD. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
During the morning several of the crew of the life-boat were at the boat-house when they saw the small pleasure boat Busy Bee, of Barnstaple, in difficulties and shewing signals of distress....
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The former Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, at the naming ceremony at Clacton on 23rd April, 1968, of the new life-boat Valentine Wyndham-Quin. On the left is the present Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Wood,... - View image in PDF
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