A steel life-boat, which is the first of her kind to be built for the Institution, was completed at the yards of Messrs. Yarrow & Co. Ltd. of Scotstoun, Glasgow, in September. She is the first vessel to be built for the RNLI in steel,...
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Mrs Babs Haxby, president of Filey ladies' guild. She served as vice chairman from 1982 to 1987 when she took the office of president. She had served on the committee prior to 1982 for over 30 years..
Category: Obituaries
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. A motor schooner had grounded, but she refloated and after she had drifted for a time her anchor held and she did not need the services of the life-boat.
- Rewards, £30 15s..<...
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Scarborough -- North Division The boathouse for Scarborough's Mersey and D class is right on the town's seafront, tucked into the corner of the beach at South Bay...
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(Upper left) Mrs Winifred Waring, honorary secretary of Castleford ladies' guild and president of Castleford and Normanton International Soroptimist Club, together with Miss Betty Moisly, Divisional Union President for Yorkshire... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FOR a long search in bad weather on 22nd March, 1969, for the fishing boat Crusader additional monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Ilfracombe, North Devon, life-boat.
At 2.20 a.m. it was learnt that a fishing...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services (continued from page 153) (and their dog) were in turn taken by breeches buoy to the lifeboat. John Powell and Alwyn Emmerson were then recovered in the same way.
The operation was completed by 1720 and...
Category: Services
Port Erin, Isle of Man - At 5.35 p.m.
on 21st July, 1969, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a dinghy with three people on board was in difficulties in Port Erin bay. The life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched at 5.50 in a...