/(had never been done before—not surprisingly—so this intrepid group set out to do it: (I to r) Ray Hea/ey, his wife Maureen, Remo Mele, Gillian Earles and George McLeod. The feat was to water ski the 50 miles between Lochinver and Stornoway... - View image in PDF
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David Jones, RO(NW), presents a framed certificate of thanks to the Queen's Arms, Warwick-on-Eden, where over the past eight years £10,000 has been raised for Carlisle branch. (I to r): Dr John Southern, Carlisle branch honorary... - View image in PDF
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Your series looking at lifeboat stations from the air in the Spring 1996 issue, reminded me that I had come across a 'snapshot' of the Weymouth lifeboat taken in 1936.
I thought readers might like to see the sharp... - View image in PDF
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Men of Bumpstead and District branch are not afraid to grab an oar and jump into their pulling lifeboat Sir William Hilary. Guiding her through the streets of Steeple Bumpstead as part of the local carnival can be a profitable task for this... - View image in PDF
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The Angmering, West Sussex, branch held its annual Garden Fete in June, in the grounds of Lord and Lady Delfont's Angmering House. Lady Delfont took over as president of the branch in September The amount of money raised has increased... - View image in PDF
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Swanage, Dorset.—On the morning of the 5th August St. Alban's Head coastguard reported that a vessel one and a half miles S.W. of the Head was making signals of distress. A moderate W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—In the morn- ing of the 15th of September, 1948, a sudden north-easterly gale sprang up, two fishing boats were seen to be in difficulties about one and a half miles to the southward, and at 10.50 the motor life-boat...
Scaiborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.44 in the evening of the 5th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that flares could be seen one mile north by east of Burniston, and the motor life- boat Herbert Joy II was lauriched at 6.55. The...
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1954, a police officer rang up to say that he had seen someone waving in a fishing boat one mile north of Heugh Light.
The boat appeared to have broken...
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 14th of Novem- ber, 1952, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from a doctor on Bardsey Island asking for the life-boat to take a seriously sick...