Mrs Jean Rose, president of Heworth ladies' guild since 1992 having previously served as founder chairman since 1968. Until 1945 she had been a member of the Port Rush committee in Ireland and after moving to England inthat year she...
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In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
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Hastings, Sussex. At 1.4 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the Hastings and St.
Leonards sailing club that a large yacht had reported to their rescue boat that a...
The number of annual lifeboat launches has topped 9,000 for the first time in RNLI history. Statistics for 2009 show that volunteer crews launched 9,223 times, rescuing 8,235 people. The charity’s lifeguards also had their busiest year ever,...
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(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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on 20th Oct., saved 16 men from the barque Vermont, of Halifax..
on 9th Feb., saved 3 men from the lugger Nimrod, of Castletown..
CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—The Ashtonian Life-boat put off at 2.30 P.M., on the 28th August, and brought safely back to land a boat containing two men, which was drifting out to sea during a strong S.W.
wind. Her occupants were...
Coxswain Robert Harland of the Whitby motor life-boat and his grandson. - View image in PDF
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The Jacob George ashore at Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 4th' February, 1936. (See page 78).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs