AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
DEC. 25TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Flares had been reported, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £19 16s. 6d..
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched.
A light easterly...
Aberdeen.—30th December, 1937.
A steam trawler had signalled for help after losing her propeller, but she was picked up by another trawler.— Rewards, £14 11*. 6d..
It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
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Bob Kemm (r). assistant general manager of Leicester Bui/ding Societv, hands a cheque for £8.000 to Lord Stanley of Alderley. a member of the Committee of Management, at the central jetty. Earls Court.. - View image in PDF
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MARCH 1 6 T H . - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it was found later to be a false alarm. - Rewards, Blackpool, £11 6s. 9d. ; Lytham - St. Annes, £8 6s....
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Seafield, Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 2nd December, 1933, a curragh, which was returning from the fishing grounds,...
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A life-boat collecting box has come home after being bombed. It was on board a steamer which was attacked by aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and 56 of them were landed by the Angle life-boat. Two days later she went...
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Helmsman Andrew Coe, Adam Cowell And Phil Brenchley. - View image in PDF
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