(Below) If a tow line is put aboard it will be longer than you might expect - Frank Smith of Salcombe never uses less than 120 metres, and if there's any sea it could be 200 metres longer than that.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
6. Amy, daughter of Gary Collett, a boat builder at the ILC, presents a bouquet to Lynn Faulds Wood during the naming ceremony of the Mersey class lifeboat Bingo Lifeline. Photo Janet Smith The two naming ceremonies are described in more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aith, Shetlands. At 3.10 p.m. on 5th October, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient on Foula was seriously ill and needed urgent hospital treatment. At 3.35, when the doctor boarded the life-boat, the John and...
APPRECIATION RECEIVED Aith, Shetlands. At 2.40 p.m. on I4th August, 1965, the local doctor was told by the district nurse on the Island of Foula that a patient was seriously ill. Her removal to hospital was necessary and the assistance of...
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - LONGHOPE , ORKNEYS. At about five in the evening the coastguard reported that a vessel needed help about a mile N.W. of Duncansby Head, and the motor life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 5.30. A S.E. gale was blowing,...
LIST OF OFFICERS.
PRESIDENT.
Capt. H.R.H. The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., K.G.
PRESIDENT OP THE LADIES' AUXILIARIES—H.E.H. The DUCHESS OF YORK.
CENTRAL...
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Appledore, Devon. At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of February, 1958, the Westward Ho coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch motor vessel Abgir was in a dangerous position and dragging her anchor at Down End.
After a...
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 6.15 in the evening the coastguard reported a sailing yacht approaching from the north. The River Girvan was very full of water, which was pouring through the harbour, and he thought...
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was given of services in which four different vessels had twice, within a short time, been helped by the same Life-boat.
Since then a vessel has been twice helped within four...
Category: Services
Mrs L Wheatley, Southampton guild flag week organiser and souvenir secretary from 1981 until her death. Mrs Wheatley joined the guild in 1977 and was vice chairman from 1981 to 1988. She received the silver badge in 1989..
Category: Obituaries