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Galilee, Progress,Endeavour, Noel II, Provider and Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 28th May. The weather got bad and some of them came in. By 8 A.M.
a heavy sea was rolling in and breaking at the harbour entrance, and a...
Boy and Uncle Rescued By Boatman
ON the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being carried down Wells channel on the Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The time then was 11.30, two hours after high water. The...
Category: Articles
Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the birthday honours for 1962 included:— K.C.B. Rear Admiral E. G. IRVING, C.B.E., O.B.E., Hydrogra- pher of the Navy, and ex- officio member of the Com- mittee of...
Category: Awards
(Above) of the £6000 Raised By Salcombe and Hope Branch No Less Than £2066 Resulted from the Efforts of the Lifeboat Crew and Their Wives Money Was Raised By Dance
(Above) Of the £6,000 raised by Salcombe and Hope branch, no less than £2,066 resulted from the efforts of the lifeboat crew and their wives. Money was raised by dances and other functions, but a large proportion came from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RIDING TO THE RESCUE
‘You bet!’ That’s what a group of local lads said when challenged to undertake a gruelling bike ride from Arbroath to Dobbies at Ethiebeaton Park – and back – late last summer. Their combined pedal-power raised a whopping £563, which...
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
'THE Year of the Lifeboat', as 1974 is to be known, will be an occasion for everyone connected with the lifeboat service to feel both pride and humility.
A record of 150 years of voluntary service, as a result of...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
Buy a Life-Boat Calendar!
Buy a Life-boat Calendar! THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and...
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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary C. 617
Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire.—Shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning of the llth of December, 1948, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary C. 617, bound with stores from Invergordon to Rosyth, wirelessed to Wick Radio that she was...