On the following day the Life-boat was again taken out and assisted two fishing boats which were making for the harbour in a very heavy sea. The first boat was got safely ia, and the other one, acting on the warning of the Life-boat men,...
Left to right: The Viscount Grey of Fallodou. K.G.. the Dulce of Northumberland, the Duchess of Northumberland, the Bishop of Newcastle, Colonel the Hon. Harold Robson. the Chairman of the Branch, and the Rev. F.... - View image in PDF
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The occasion was a special illumination of the town.. - View image in PDF
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Weymouth, Dorset,—On the 2nd of April, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland rescued four lives from the tug H.L.S. 161. Rewards, the silver medal to the coxswain, the bronze medal to the motor mechanic, and £19 12*. to coxswain...
FOR the last four months the Life-boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have been busily endeavour- ing to maintain in 1902 the grand record of net receipts obtained by the Fund throughout the United Kingdom last year for the...
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Three saved from dismasted catamaran in storm conditionsP) lymouth's Arun class City of Plymouth made headline news locally when she went to the aid of the 35ft catamaran Myros. which had been dismasted in storm force winds on Thursday...
A welcome that leaves other Boat Show packages in our wake.
A trip to the London International Boat Show, January 6th - 16th 2000, is even better when you make a Hilton or Stakis Hotel your first port of call. The friendly...
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Hoylake, Cheshire. Between nine o'clock and 10.50 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, the coxswain kept the yacht Clytie, which was lying at anchor in the Swash to the north of Hilbre Island, under observation. Dur- ing this time...
The Clogher Head Station, Co. Louth, and the Drogheda branch, which was also a life-boat station until 1929, have lost one of their most valued sup- porters by the death of Mr. R. O. Hill.
For twenty years, from 1911 to...
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The Life-boat crew were called at midnight on the 30th of March, signals of distress having been observed in the roads, supplemented by rockets fired from the Light-vessel. The Mark Lane Life-boat was launched, and soon reached the...