(Below) Second Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer with the Trent class Frederick Storey Cockburn.. - View image in PDF
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Burnham-on-Sea’s lifeboats were returning from their regular Wednesday night training session on 18 June when the Coastguard asked their crews to investigate a sailor who looked to be in trouble. The man was having difficulty recovering his...
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Eight hundred branches held flag days in 1941, and 508 of thsse days collected more than ever before. 9,288,000 people contributed. That is 1,561,000 more than in 1940, and the biggest number who have ever given. The sum raised was...
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The Duncan life-boat at Sheringham saved 3 persons from the schooner Hero, of Maldon, which had stranded opposite Bee- ston Hills, near Sheringham.
The same life-boat also rescued 6 men from the schooner Bestlett, of Peter- head, which became a total wreck on Has- borough Sands.
21 st August. A motor boat capsized. Five of the six occupants were rescued by boats from the shore.—Rewards, £6 3s. &d..
REDCAR.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched at 10.15 A.M., on the 14th April, and helped two fishing - boats which had been overtaken by stormy weather and a heavy sea..
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—2nd June, 1938. A fishing boat was in distress, but her crew of five were rescued from the shore by the coastguard rocket life - saving appliances. — Rewards, £25 19s..
FOR the fourth year running the Insti- tution has received a gift of a year'scollection of halfpennies. It numbered 468, or nineteen shillings and sixpence..
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From photograph oy Captain E. W. Swan, C.B.E., V.D., D.L, R.N.y.R., a member of the Committee of Management and Chairman gj the Tynemouth Branch.. - View image in PDF
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