William Westenra, 6th Baron Rossmore, died on the 17th of October, 1958, at the age of 62. After service during the last war with the directorate of the Air Sea Rescue, Lord Rossmore joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in...
Category: Obituaries
A bouquet for the Duchess— a rose for a little girl: The Duchess of Kent takes out a rose from her bouquet and hands it back to 5-year-old Susanne Gibbs, daughter of Coxswain Kenneth Gibbs.
Photograph by courtesy of Western... - View image in PDF
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UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...
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IT is just a year (vide Life-boat Journal, February, 1898) since a description was given in these pages of the steam Life- boat Queen, which was sent to her station at New Brighton in October, 1897. After the launch of that boat and before...
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JUNE 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a light northerly breeze was blowing, but there was a strong swell breaking about four hundred yards outside the harbour entrance, and a fishing coble, attempting to make...
(Left, top) Liam checks the cover on one of the first Atlantics to come up for sale. (Left, lower) A clutch of Waveneys at the Depot quay. The outer boat.
44-0 / 7, was due to leave Tilbury for New Zealand in March where... - View image in PDF
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November Meeting.
Whitstable, Kent.—At about 11.30 A.M., on the 2nd October, 1938, the sailing dinghy Wana, of Whitstable, with one man on board, capsized about half a mile off Swale Cliff Rock. A moderate to fresh, squally...
Category: Services
JULY 18TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. While the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board steamer Denham was engaged on survey work she struck a mine about two hundred yards south-west of Rock 3 Block buoy. She was completely wrecked, throwing her crew...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of November, 1952, the Redcar coastguard tele- phoned that he had fired a rocket to warn a vessel that she was heading for Salt Scar Rocks. The vessel did not seem to...
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Fantastic 5p fundraising
When 8-year-old Keegan Luraschi learned that RNLI lifeboat crew members are volunteers who count on public donations to save lives, he set his mind to doing all he...
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