The stand that says it all. Dot Emblin, Molly Walter and Mary Slocombe (I to r) of the newly formed North Walsham branch on duty behind their souvenir stall at the Worstead Festival in September. They made £444 during their time... - View image in PDF
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3 September 2011: Porthcawl’s B class lifeboat Rose of the Shires was called out to rescue two kayakers who’d got caught out by a sudden change in conditions. The crew had just finished a fundraising bike ride when they got the...
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The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette recently called attention in a leading article to the advisability of the use of oil during rough weather at sea under certain favourable conditions. They remarked that it was gratifying to observe that...
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The new boat, presented by the Free- masons of "Warwickshire, and named the Lady Leigh, soon inaugurated its mission of mercy, it having been called out on service on the evening of Sunday the 10th Nov. The brig Palestine, of Whitby,...
TWO MEN RESCUED FROM CRAB BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.35 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, the fisheries officer informed the honorary secretary that a crab boat from West Runton was in difficulties off the...
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private resident that a rowing boat, with two women on board,...
AUGUST 15TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 6.45 in the evening the rowing boat Seagull, of Port St. Mary, was seen to be flying a white handkerchief on an oar. She was two miles off Scarlett Point. A fresh to strong northerly off-shore...
The problems encountered by lifeboat designers seeking extra speed have been mentioned before in these pages, as boat design is never as straightforward as it may seem. Increased speed is not just a question of bigger engines or even just of...
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In gully INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED from HM Coastguard by St Ives ILB station at 1531 on Thursday, July 28, that there were people cut off by the tide on the north side of Carbis Bay Beach. The assembly signal was made immediately and the ILB...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At i .45 a.m. on 27th December, 1965, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, notified the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Maracove of New York, on passage to Rotterdam, had requested that the...