DOUGLAS (!SLE OF MAN).-—Life-boat Sunday was held on 5th August, on Douglas Head, and a record congrega- tion assembled. The prayers were said by the Rev. A. C. McNeal, the vicar of St. Ninian's. The lesson was read by Colonel Madoc,...
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Turning back the clock', Guide of Dunkirk dressed overall after 'her naming at Cadgwith, Cornwall, on June 14, 1947. During her years of service she launched 15 times and saved 17 lives.
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On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...
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Nine rescued TYNEMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Tynemouth lifeboat station at 1511 on Sunday April 11, 1982. to tell him that the angling boat Blue Fin appeared to be in distress south of Tyne Piers. Eleven minutes...
At 7 A.M. on the 8th January a message was received that signal guns were being fired by j the Lightvessels which protect the .
Goodwin Sands. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford to...
ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which the crew, and courageous determination on the part of them all, could have had been sheltering in Fishguard i successfully brought the Life-boat, Harbour, left for...
ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which had been sheltering in Fishguard Harbour, left for Rotterdam. During the night the wind freshened until it was blowing a moderate gale from N. W., and she was compelled...
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serving of record and worthy of imitation, has been recently made known to the public through the newspapers of the day :— At a meeting of the weekly board of the Gene- ral Hospital at Nottingham, on the 19th May,...
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(Below) The minesweeper HMS Thrifty tows three lifeboats to Dunkirk. They are believed to be Southend, Walmer and Hythe. - View image in PDF
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The present life-boat house (left) at Ilfracombe nestles at the foot of Lantern Hill where there is a fishermen's chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas. The new life-boat L/oyd'j II (right) is launched by tractor over the site of the... - View image in PDF
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