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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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...
Category: Obituaries
Walmer. Kent. — At 6.58 on the evening- of the 1st of July, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned that three people in a dinghy could be seen wav- ing a flag on a stick in Pegwell Bay.
At 7.3 the life-boat Charles Dibdin...
Coxswain Samuel Cunningham, who died at his home at the age of 54 on 3rd June, 1964, had a dual role which was unique in Ulster. He was former coxswain of the Portrush life-boat and was also town clerk of Portrush.
He was...
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22nd August. The Dutch motor vessel Apollinaris, of Groningen, appeared to be ashore, but was found to be safely at anchor very close to the Scroby Sands.—Rewards, £8 8s..
The Humber, Yorkshire.—30th May.
A motor boat had run aground at Cowden, but the crew got ashore.—- Permanent paid crew ; Rewards, 15s..
Capsize AFTER CAPSIZING several times offLligwy Beach on Sunday, July 18, the crew of a sailing dinghy were finally unable to right their boat and were drifting seawards.
HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of...