In very heavy weather on the night of the 24th-25th of November, 1951, the Walmer life-boat gave help to a steamer on the Goodwin Sands. A full account of this service appears on page 288..
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, founder of the Life-boat Stamp Bureau, will be very glad of gifts of colonial and foreign stamps from readers of The Life-boat and their friends. All the proceeds of the Stamp...
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Weymouth, Dorset,—On the 2nd of April, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland rescued four lives from the tug H.L.S. 161. Rewards, the silver medal to the coxswain, the bronze medal to the motor mechanic, and £19 12*. to coxswain...
On the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage life-boat rescued the only man on board a barge which had broken adrift from a tug and was driving for the shore. For this service a full account of which is given on page 190, Coxswain Robert Brown...
Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman, RNLI, accepts cheque for £30,000 to provide an Atlantic 21 and boathouse for Abersochfrom Malcolm Timmins, chairman, Wolverhampton branch. Looking on: (I. to r.) Councillor Ted Mitchell, appeal... - View image in PDF
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A double baptism aboard Appledore lifeboat: On Sunday March 5 The Reverend Donald L. Peyton Jones, Vicar of Appledore and Priest-in-charge of Lundy Island, christened Faye, daughter of Clifford and Angela Edwards, and Matthew Roy, son of Roy... - View image in PDF
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Oldham, the second of Hoylake's four Liverpool lifeboats which spanned the years 1906 to 1974; the first was a pulling and sailing boat, the last three motor. Oldham, presented by the town of Oldham, was on station from 1931 to 1952; she... - View image in PDF
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Walton and Frinlon: Two photographs taken b Motor Mechanic William Jenkins, put side h side, .v/ioir the damage inflicted on Walton pier h the storms on New Year's Eve. The landing stage for the station's boarding hont mis... - View image in PDF
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Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham, Director of the RNLI, visited Newcastle lifeboat station during a tour of Ireland lust December. With him lire (I. to r.) Motor Mechanic Gerald Murphy, Crew Member Jim Smyth, Second Coxswain Samuel McCulli ugh.... - View image in PDF
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