Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.40 a.m. on 2yth April, 1965, the coxswain in the absence of the honorary secretary decided to launch the life-boat to escort the fishing coble Peggy of Filey into the harbour because of the bad weather conditions. At 9...
Les Dennis draws the winning tickets under the watchful eye of the deputy head of fundraising and marketing Anthony Oliver.. - View image in PDF
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The Third Coxswain of the by now soap-free Douglas lifeboat Sir William Hillary is put aboard Martlet fo connect the tow.. - View image in PDF
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1 Brighton's shore facilities are close at hand, atop the pier The basic portable buildings are soon to be replaced by a modern permanent structure.
2. A portion of the flooring is pivotted, forming a ramp in the tipped... - View image in PDF
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THE number of stations in the United States Life-Saving Service at the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1907, was 278, the same as that on the correspond- ing date in the previous year. Of this number, which was subdivided into thir-...
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DURING the coming holiday months many people will find themselves con- fronted at seaside resorts and elsewhere with flag sellers for the Royal National Life-boat Institution. When putting a coin into a box they may well ask them- selves:...
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Aith, Shetland. — At 12.30 A.M. on Christmas Day, 1937, a doctor telephoned that he had been asked to go tothe outlying island of Foula, as the inhabitants were in the grip of an epidemic of influenza, one person being critically ill, and...
His Efforts to Interest the Admiralty in his Scheme for a Life-boat Service.
By Major Evan W. H. Fyers, Member of the Major Fyers, to whose researches we owe the discovery of these very interesting letters of Sir William...
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RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY..—The Norwegian barque Dronning Sophie was seen to be in distress in Carnarvon Bay, and fast drifting to leeward, while the wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.W., and a very heavy sea was running, on the 7th October...
Lerwick, Shetland*. At 1.45 on the after- noon of 27th January, 1961, the Medical Officer of Health for Shetland told the honorary secretary that a woman had been blown over by the wind on Fair Isle and had been badly injured, and that it...