FOR some considerable period the Committee of Management have felt that the organisation in Scotland of our appeal for funds to carry on the Life-boat Service has not been effective, and that, as a result, the amount raised in that part of...
Category: Committee
Bude's new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat in the surf close to shore during a training exercise shortly after her arrival on station.
The Evans/Avon EA 16 lifeboat has a 40hp outboard engine and a top speed of 20... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FOR THE YEAR 1898-99.
SHOWING ALSO THE PRESHNT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.
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Category: Charts
Plymouth, Devon.—At 5.58 on the morning of the 14th of May, 1954, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to stand by the many small boats which had put off to welcome the return of H.M. the Queen from the...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coxswain informed the honor- ary secretary that Messrs. Wimpey had requested the help of the life-boat, as one of their pontoons two miles north of Hartlepool was...
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of April, 1948, the Royal Naval Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed about one and a half miles south-east of the...
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FOUR YOUNG MEN RESCUED FROM ROCKS Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 7th July, 1962, the coastguard told the second coxswain of a police report from Seaton Carew that four young men had been cut off by the tide on...
SHIP'S BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 16th November, 1962, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat was ashore on the rocks just outside the harbour...
Following the assistance given by the Bembridge life-boat to H.M.S. Submarine Alliance after she had grounded in January, 1968, Admiral Sir John Frewen, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, wrote to the Institution: 'I should like to...
Category: Correspondence