Workington 's relief Mersey Lifetime Care manoeuvres up to the stranded Capella ready to attach a tow.. - View image in PDF
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Two events in June brought in funds for Hampstead Garden Suburb branch. Bishopswood Bowling Club raised £200 with a day of bowls; most members gave their support and pictured here are just some of the 'team'. Later in the same... - View image in PDF
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THIS year there will again be a Christmas card and pocket calendar for sale.
The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside. Inside are Christmas greetings and the above picture of a...
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THIS year the Institution will again have for sale two Christmas cards, one in colours, the other in black and white, and a pocket calendar.
The card in colour will show the Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache returning...
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In the last number of THE LIFE-BOAT (pages 160-161) reference was made to the Institution's Christmas cards and calendars. A colour leaflet showing the full range is enclosed with this issue, together with an order form. It is hoped that...
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THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Coverack (Cornwall) life-boat being launched on service and...
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Carved wood stern ornament from the Indian Chief which was wrecked on the Long Sands on 5th January, 1881, survivors being taken off by the Ramsgate, Kent, life-boat next day. The ornament—it commemorates a famous rescue—is preserved at the... - View image in PDF
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How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline! During the present year alone...
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New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard reported that the Sea Cadet pinnace Rosie was ashore on Devil's Bank in the river Mersey off Garston. At 8.50 the life- boat Norman 13....