Return of the native The former Aberdeen lifeboat Ramsey Dyce - which served at the station between 1957 and 1976 before being transferred to the relief fleet - visited her old station during September 1995. She had previously called at... - View image in PDF
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St. Marks Church at Akyab, Burma, has just been reopened, and one of the first things that it has done is to send a gift of 69 tupees to the Institution..
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The Royal Humane Society has awarded a testimonial on parchment to Mr.
William Dryden, motor mechanic of the Whitby life-boat, for his rescue on 5th May, 1965, of a three year old girl who had fallen into the lower...
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The Caroline life-boat, stationed at North Berwick, N.B., rendered assistance on the occasion of the stranding of the brig Woolgast, of Woolgast, Prussia.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7 P.M. on the 28th June, 1939J a message was received from the coastguard that a motor yacht two miles to the S.W.
was drifting, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing,...
On the beach at Deal. Thomas Cribben, second-coxswain of the Deal life-boat from 1921 until the station was closed in October 1932.. - View image in PDF
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It was completed in November, 1947. The watchhouse, at the beginning of the approach gangway, stands where the old life-boat house stood.. - View image in PDF
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 10.50 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1948, the motor life-boat Tyne- sider was launched, with the honorary secretary, Mr. E. Selby Davidson, on board, to carry out trials with her radio- telephony, and...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 4.30 in the morning of the 19th of July, 1948, the Castletown coastguard telephoned that the keeper at Langness Point Light had reported red flares from a small vessel, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath...
funnel (or the exhausts, mast only for signalling and the wireless aerial, and two 40 h.p. Diesel engines. Stationed at Gorleston. - View image in PDF
Cost, £9,000.. - View image in PDF
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