The Life-boat Queensbury was launched at 1.15 P.M. on the 28th September, during a moderate S.E. gale and heavy sea,onac- count of the fishing-boat Barbara Woods, of Methil, having run ashore about 200 yards from the entrance to the harbour...
The new Barmouth life-boat, The Chieftain, off St. David's Head, on her way to her station from the building yard at Cowes, with the Porthdinllaen life-boat, in February, 1949.. - View image in PDF
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COXSWAIN GEORGE SWARTS, of Barry Dock, Glamorganshire, has won a bronze medal in the shipping class at the Model Engineering Exhibition held in London, with a model of the life-boat at The Mumbles..
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A GIFT has been received of £15 3s. from the British members of the crew of the whaling factory ship Southern Empress on her return from the Antarctic..
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Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 6.30 on the evening of the 9th of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was ashore on Aber- tay sandbank on the south side of the entrance to the Tay. As no other boat was...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that he had been asked whether, because conditions were growing worse, the life-boat could land a working party from a...
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1957, the Fairlight coast- guard telephoned that a sailing dinghy needed help four miles south of Bex- hill. At 4.37 the Hastings life-boat M.T.C. was...
Poole, Dorset. — At 10.30 on the night of the llth of March, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a boat with two boys on board was missing and that the boys' parents were becoming anxious.
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Fundraisers from opposite sides of the UK had the same idea for raising cash over the birthday weekend - in the form of sponsored go-karting!. - View image in PDF
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The Mersey class Fisherman's Friend lies in the marina at Fleetwood under the watchful eye of the band during her naming ceremony. ( Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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