Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.10 on the morning of the 1st of December, 1955, the coastguard reported that a ship had run ashore between Boulmer and Craster. At 4.55 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, with the second coxswain in...
Shortly after midnight on the 21st June, rockets were observed from a vessel about two miles to the S.W. of Selsey Bill, and the Life-boat Lucy Newbon was promptly launched.
She found the s.s. Kenora, of Toronto —a large...
on 2nd Dec,, saved 11 men from the brig Prodroma, of Stockton;.
Wrecked on the Isle of Wight, 8th April, 1937. (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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Miss Ellen Goodeve, who was probably the oldest active supporter of the life-boat service, died at the Queen Mary Homes in Chislehurst, Kent, in August, 1962, at the age of 103. To within a few months of her death Miss Goodeve was regularly...
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the Sizewell coastguard reported that a cabincruiser, which was being towed by a yawl, had broken adrift half a mile N.E. of the coastguard station, and that it was not certain if anyone...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk.—At 11.20 on the night of the 25th of July, 1956, the Superintendent of the local Trinity House depot rang up to say that a man in the Gorton lightvessel was sick. He asked if the life-boat would take...
The Right Hon. Walter Runciman, M.P., shaking hands with Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope. Behind are Coxswain John Campbell, of Portpatrick, and Mr, William Sutherland, of Lon«hope.. - View image in PDF
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Planks of Honduras mahogany, cut for the skin of a life-boat, which warped while being steamed in order to be bent to the shape of the boat.. - View image in PDF
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COMMANDER A. J. O'B. TWOHIG, K.M., M. Inst. T., A.R.I.N.A., whose death was reported in the September edition of THE LIFE-BOAT, was also chairman of the Dublin branch of the R.N.L.I..
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