Five hundred people attending Gorleston lifeboat hall gave a big 'send off to a mammoth fund-raising event by- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No. 41.
The Tabler.i aim to raise £10,000 for the Institution... - View image in PDF
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On the morning of the 8th February, during a strong S.E. breeze and a heavy sea, signals of distress were shown by a steam-crane barge, employed in raising the sunken steamer Kibble, which was riding very heavily at anchor. At 6 o'clock...
Stromness.
About 4 on the morning of the 14th February three messengers from different houses in Invertown brought the Honorary Secretary the news that a steamer, which was found afterwards to be the trawler Carmania II.,...
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Patrick Power of Dunmore East.
He first joined the Dunmore East crew in 1925, became bowman in 1928 and second coxswain in 1934. He was appointed coxswain in January,...
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North Berwick ILB Blue Peter III crew meet BBC 'Blue Peter' team when they received their 'Blue Peter' gold badges during the programme on December 20, 1973. (Left to right): Peter Purves, Benjamin Pearson, James Pearson,... - View image in PDF
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The 1th September, 1963, was the 25th anniversary of the famous rescue by Grace Darling and her father of survivors from the Forfarshire. The following article, which has been specially written for the Life-boat by Commander W....
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Cloughey, Co. Down. — At 12.30 in the early hours of the 10th of August, 1952, the coxswain reported that a vessel had gone aground on the north end of North Rock, about three miles off Cloughey, and at one o'clock the life-boat...
WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It...
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MARCH 15TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
The Belgian fishing vessel Grace of God was in distress, but her crew were rescued by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £19 1s..
FEBRUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 12.30 A.M. a message was received from the Teesmouth coastguard that the S.S. Baron Ruthven, of Glasgow, was ashore on the North Gare, and that a tug was standing by. Half an hour...