Flag days have been beating all records in this 'Year of the Lifeboat'.
Here are just a few results: On London lifeboat day, March 19, £69,355 was collected, nearly £9,000 more than in 1973. For the flag...
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FEBRUARY 15TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. At 4.5 in the afternoon the Wick coastguard reported that the S.S.
Empire Conleith, of London, bound with coal for Iceland, had broken down three miles north of Dunnet Head and was...
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OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (The figure* refer to the number* of the Hfe-boatt detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.") A. F. H., 134.
A Lad;, 16.
A Lady, per Manchester Branch,...
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Below: The crew of the Beaumaris Atlantic 75, Blue Peter II. help the crew of a small motor craft. - View image in PDF
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A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers was held at. Folkestone on 2nd May.
The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor of Folkestone and Major Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P., Under-Secretary of State for Air, and...
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SEPTEMBER 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 1.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties and was drifting towards North Stack. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
On the 24th of September, at 11 P.M., the brig Hartley, of Southampton, went on shore on the south end of the Goodwin sands, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W. at the time. At 1-40 A. si. alarm guns and rockets were observed on...