Barra Island, Hebrides.—26th December, 1937. A rowing boat had been overwhelmed in Loch Eynort on the 23rd December, and two of her crew of three had been drowned. The life-boat went out to search for the two bodies, but without...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—21st May, 1938. A disabled shrimp boat had been driven into the breakers, but her crew of two were rescued from the shore by the coastguard rocket lifesaving appliances.—Rewards,...
Salcombe, Devon.—6th August, 1938.
A motor boat had been reported missing, but while a search was being made to the westward, the boat returned from the eastward.—Rewards, £9 Is..
A commemorative vellum has been awarded by the Institution to Messrs.
J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., who built 134 life-boats for the Institution between 1898 and 1964. Last year the firm ceased building wooden boats at...
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(Above) Denmark: When the old lifeboat from Nymindegab, Jutland, returned home to be the principal exhibit in the old lifeboat house, now converted into a museum, her crew were there to meet her.. - View image in PDF
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Buckle, Banff shire- On 10th October, 1967, the life-boat Laura Moncur rescued the crew of eight from the fishing boat Briar Rose for which special awards were granted. A full account of this service appears on pag•: 11..
With the aid of her fellow members of the Bexleyheath, Kent, Methodist Sisterhood, Mrs. Phyllis M. Dewey, aged 86, has made a patchwork blanket for the crew of Dover's new 44-foot steel life-boat Faithful Forester..
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Aberystwyth lifeboat flag day, August 6, 1973: when the River Rheidol overflowed its banks, flooding a caravan and camping site, the D class inflatable lifeboat, crewed by Gwyn Martin, the station honorary secretary, and Ralph Kenyon,... - View image in PDF
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