Members of the Blackpool lifeboat crew and ladies guild quite literally pushed the boat out on 10 September 1995, raising over £167 for RNLI funds.
An inflatable D class lifeboat was pushed along the promenade to North... - View image in PDF
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4th Novem- ber. A report that an aeroplane had been seen to fall in the sea was received, but though the life-boat searched for a long time nothing was found.—Re- wards, £17 0*. 3d..
JUNE 22ND. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
After an air-raid alarm had been given it, was reported that distress signals hadbeen heard, but nothing could be found.
Rewards. £10 18s..
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A determined Kathleen Miller (below) raised £1,300 for Middleton branch when she climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in February. After a briefing and a practice ladder climb, Kathleen embarked on the two hour climb and found it... - View image in PDF
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Peterhead, Aberdeen.—16th January, 1939. A trawler had run ashore on the Scaurs of Cruden, but she was refloated and taken in tow for Aberdeen by another trawler. Unfortunately she had been damaged and on her way to Aberdeen she foundered...
APRIL 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. A British Spitfire fighter aeroplane and a German Heinkel bomber had come down in the sea thirty miles east of Hartlepool, but the five German airmen and the British pilot were rescued...
MAY 13TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A destroyer had a badly injured man on board, and wanted to send him ashore, but he was taken off by a motor launch before the lifeboat arrived. - Rewards, £16 4s. 6d..
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the 10th January, the Hannah Somerset Life-boat pat off and rendered assistance to several fishing cobles which were in danger during a very strong E.N.E. wind and heavy sea.
With the help of the...