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Working Away...
'Oh, we'll be there from about eight, see you when you arrive' said the cheerful voice on the other end of the phone. As I put the handset down I reflected on the distance some of those 'we's would have to travel to be at...
Category: Articles
Olive Branch
WATCHET.—On the 29th March, the sloop Olive Branch, of Cardiff, exhibited a signal of distress. The Life-boat Joseph Somes immediately proceeded to her assistance, and by skilful management she succeeded in getting alongside to leeward of...
Fishing Cobles (2)
WHITBY.—The Life-boat John Fielden was launched at 12.30 P.M., on the 12th February, and attended some of the cobles which were in danger while returning to the harbour, a heavy sea having sprang up during the time they were out fishing..<...
Showboat - and Carriage
So often the Cinderella... This year a sizeable stand at the London Boat Show enabled the Talus tractor and sophisticated Mersey launching carriage to share the limelight with the lifeboat they launch. Photo Mike Anker, Take Two. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat (2)
FIVE PEOPLE At 6.45 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a small motor boat with five people on board was adrift in the sound of Barra with engine trouble. The life-boat R.A.
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Galway Bay - At 4.35 p.m. on 6th March, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient on Inishere Island had acute appendicitis and needed to be taken to hospital. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson slipped her...
Rosedene
DECEMBER 4TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.
About 4.40 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel aground at Hawthorne Point, two miles south of Seaham coastguard look-out.A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell, and the weather...
Winifred and Shawford (1)
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
A Boat
At 2.40 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Rocka- Nore. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 2.46 in a south westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was high...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.28 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, it was learned that a man was stranded on a rope ladder at Rough Towers Fort. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 9.52...