SEPTEMBER 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and on fire off Worthing Pier, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £4 1s..
Keith Thatcher, RNLI Naval Architect, continues a series of profiles of lifeboat classes Many people's image of a lifeboat launch is of a boat plummeting down a slipway into rough seas, disappearing into a cloud of spray at the foot of...
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DECEMBER 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A lady passenger on a tram asked the driver to report that she had seen an aeroplane crash in the sea, but the lifeboat found nothing. - Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..
Thurrock branch members turned a derelict ship's lifeboat given to the branch chairman, Sherwin A.
Chase, by a Grays firm of ship breakers into an Oakley lifeboat 'replica'. She is named Henry de Grey and now is... - View image in PDF
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The Duke of Atholl, the RNLI's chairman, meets members of the Lake District branch aboard a steam-boat at Windermere Steam-Boat Museum. The branch held a two-week fund-raising drive to coincide with Windermere Festival. Shepherds, a firm... - View image in PDF
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HE rose at dawn, and, flushed with hope, Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar, And reached the ship and caught the rope, And whistled to the morning star.
And while on deck he whistled loud, He heard a fierce mermaiden...
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Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 11.5 on the morning of the 3rd of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a canoe was drifting two and a half miles south of the pier, and at 11.20 the life-boatBeryl Tollemache was launched in a rough sea, with...
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 31st May. The amount raised was £6,397, an increase of £1,074 on 1937.
Presentation 'by Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P.,...
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25th May. An aeroplane had been reported as fallen into the sea, but a careful search revealed nothing.—Rewards, £2 16s.
IN the face of the gratifying fact that our commerce is year by year expanding itself by many thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and mortifying truth, that the advance of our science and skill does not keep pace with this...
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