Portrush, Co. Antrim.—31st December, 1938. A steamer had run aground, but her crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard rocket lifesaving appliances.—Rewards, £7 6s. 6d..
Amble, Northumberland. — 15th October, 1939. A barrage balloon was reported to have fallen into the sea, but the life-boat could find no trace of it.—Rewards, £11 8s..
This boat stationed at Queenscliff, Victoria, was built at Port Adelaide in 1926, after designs of the Institution, and her engines and fittings were supplied by the Institution.. - View image in PDF
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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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A cartoon published in the Birmingham Mail on life-boat day.
Reproduced by kind permission of the Editor..
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LADY HICKS. - View image in PDF
Speaking at the opening ceremony. (Behind Lady Hicks is Mrs Astley Roberts, President of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild.). - View image in PDF
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For over twenty years a member of the Kirkcudbright life-boat crew.
(From an etching by the Cumberland artist, Mr. Joseph Simpson.).
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A mes- sage was received from the St. David's Coastguard on the morning of the 23rd June that a vessel was in distress near the Smalls Lighthouse. A fresh northerly breeze was blowing with a smooth sea, but the weather was...
27th October.
A steamer had dragged her anchors, but declined the services of the Life- boat.—Rewards, £79 8s. 6d..
COXSWAIN GEORGE TAYLOR, of Newbiggin, was also the holder of a silver medal awarded for an outstanding service during the last war. This was the rescue in a 32-feet life-boat of the light surf type of eleven men from the Belgian motor vessel...
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