Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — 13th October, 1938. Shouts for help had been heard off Llandullas, but though the life-boat searched all night, she could find nothing. Later three boys in a boat were picked up in the...
Holyhead's 47ft Tyne class lifeboat St Cybi II (Civil Service No. 40), which took up station duty on September 20, 1985. As her name implies, she is the fortieth lifeboat to be provided by the Civil Service, Post Office and British... - View image in PDF
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JULY 26TH. - CROMER. NORFOLK. An aeroplane had crashed on the Outer Bank, but the life-boat found that she had been smashed and there was nothing to be done.
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Workington, Cumberland - At 2 p.m. on 5th February, 1967 a small boat was reported to be firing distress flares two miles to the seaward of Sailerbeck cemetery. The life-boat Thomas McCunn on temporary duty at the station, slipped her...
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a vessel, one and a half miles N.E. of Kinnaird Head, was flying a distress signal. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...
An injured man on board the Margate life-boat. He was one of four of the crew of a minesweeper who were seriously injured when she was blown up and sank on 20th November, 1939.. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 1988: Mrs D.N. King, president of the Knowle and Dorridge Ladies' Guild from 1983 to 1985. She was chairman of the guild from 1968 to 1982 and was awarded a silver badge in 1977..
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JULY 13TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane was reported as having come down in the sea a few miles out, but though the life-boat searched over a wide area she could find nothing.-Rewards, £6 4s..