The end of a Brixham trawler The crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37) can only watch as the trawler Tennetje sinks off Start Point, Devon on 17 July 1988.
The lifeboat had been called at 0605...
With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...
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On the 30th March, at 5.15 A.M., in reply to signals of distress the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeded to the East Goodwin Lightship and found that she had been run into by a schooner, and had one of the vessel's crew on...
On the 3rd March in consequence of the westerly wind increasing to a gale—the sea already being high—the small fishing coble Royal, which was at 12.30 P.M.
about six miles off Newbiggin with no other vessel near her, was...
The Minister for Posts and Tele- graphs in the Republic of Ireland has sent his thanks to the life-boat station at Kilronan for carrying mails for the Aran Islands from Rossaveal to Kilronan.
The mails were loaded by the...
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Torbay, Devon.—On the 23rd January the s.s. English Trader, of London, ran ashore at the entrance of DartmouthHarbour. The motor life-boat George Shee rescued the fifty-two men on board. Rewards : Bronze second service clasp, vellums, letter...
A four-year-old girl, who was rescued in June, 1968, from the water at Bude, Cornwall, by one of the crew of the local IRB, afterwards returned to give a him a kiss of thanks.
Her rescuer was Mr. John Bate, aged 25, and the...
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Having a hall? Lord Provost Robert Cray of Glasgow teed off in fine style to celebrate the raising of £2,105 for the City of Glasgow's Lifeboat Appeal Fund at a golf tournament held by Whitbread Scotland. The dimpled downpour took... - View image in PDF
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A gentle tap from Robert Morley on a Salmanazar champagne bottle releases £150.65 in pound notes, pennies and half-pennies collected for the RNLl by The White Hart public house at Margrave between June last year and March. Ian Malim.... - View image in PDF
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Front Cover Arranmore's new Severn class, Myrtle Maud, (ON1244) shows off her new livery during trials. Inset: Cromer Coxswain Richard Davies, carries the RNLI colours at the Festival of Remembrance in November joined by Director Andrew... - View image in PDF
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