Five pence a bucket of water, lOp a bag of soggy pig food. That was the going rate for tormenting poor Edward Childs, a crew member of Port Isaac lifeboat in the stocks during the station's annual Lifeboat Larks. Bob Young (far left),... - View image in PDF
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Contents Volume XLV Number 461 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H. FARRANT, CB Director and Secretary: CAPTAIN NIGEL DIXON, RN Managing Editor: PATRICK HOWARTH Editor: JOAN DAVIES Headquarters: Royal National Life-boat Institution, West Quay Road,...
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Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
LORD KILLANIN has been co-opted as a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution. He had extensive journalistic experience before the last war, and during the war he served as an officer of the Queen's Westminsters. He is a...
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Launches 113. Lives rescued 119.
AUGUST 1ST. - BARRA ISLAND , HEBRIDES. At 2.30 A.M. a telegram was received from the coastguard at Kyle that a ship’s boat under sail with men on board had been seen at 9.30 P.M. the night...
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— A strong N.E.
breeze was blowing, with a nasty sea running, on 23rd September, when in- formation that a vessel had stranded on the Margate Sands was received from the Coastguard, and the Motor Life-boat City of Bradford...
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Just after 9 P.M. on the 14th February, 1938, the life-boatman on watch reported a large steamer aground on the Inner Binks. The sea was rough, with an E.N.E. wind and snow squalls. At 9.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.17 on the morning of the 30th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down east of Bull Fort but did not seem to be in immediate danger. At 8.50...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 13th of March, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Hadiotis, of Syra, Greece, which was lying at anchor two miles south of Spurn Point, had signalled that she had a sick...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the morning, on the 6th of July, 1950, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull lightvessel that she had an inju ed man needing help.
At 5.5 the life-boat City of Bradford...