Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 P.M. on the 6th July, 1939, a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a sailing boat with five people on board was flying an oilskin in her rigging near Deal Bank Buoy. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
27th December, 1933. A French trawler had stranded on the Black Middens, but was refloated by a tug.—Rewards £17 14s..
Awarded the silver medal for gallantry and a second-service clasp to it in 1937. - View image in PDF
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A LONDON clergyman has sent seven shillings and sixpence to the St. Ives branch and writes : " Behind the gift is rather an inter- esting story. Three children, Vera Harris (aged 11), Pam Harris (aged 6), sisters, and Alan Gibson, their...
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Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— 19th January, 1938. At 2.35 P.M. the motor fishing boat Heather, of Filey, was reported overdue, and as it was not known in which direction she might be, the honorary secretary sent out twelve men in three...
21st September.
Signals of distress from the Brake Sand reported. No vessel found.—Rewards, £10 6s..
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SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes2561.
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SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes 2561.
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This interesting picture sent in by Mr A. S.C.
Walker, of Albert Walker & Son, of Redcar, Yorkshire, shows the late Mr Stanley Walker selling the old Redcar lifeboat Fifi and Charles by public auction on Redcar beach on... - View image in PDF
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