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Girls from Hastings High School Visited Their Local Lifeboat Station In March to Present a Cheque for £600 to Hastings and St.Leonards Branch the Result of Their 1977 C
Girls from Hastings High School visited their local lifeboat station in March to present a cheque for £600 to Hastings and St Leonards branch, the result of their 1977 charity project: it is twice as much as they have ever collected... - View image in PDF
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Award to Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
ABOUT 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th July, 1961, a girl who was swim- ming was seen to be in difficulties near the slipway which is used for launching the Appledore boarding boat. There was a slight, variable breeze and a calm sea. It was...
Category: Awards
Gerassimos Vergottis and Van Ostade (1)
JULY 1ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. During thick fog the Greek steamer Gerassimos Vergottis and the Dutch steamer Van Ostade had collided, and the Greek steamer had been badly damaged.
The life-boats could not...
Hearing on Sunday July 25 That Mfv Mary Sue of Dublin With Five People on Board Had Engine Failure One Mile South of Puffin Island and Needed Help Valentia's 52' Bar
Hearing, on Sunday, July 25, that MFV Mary Sue of Dublin, with five people on board, had engine failure one mile south of Puffin Island and needed help, Valentia's 52' Barnett lifeboat, Rowland Watts, slipped her moorings at 1820 and... - View image in PDF
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A 'Mayday' Fair Held at the Palmer Home Sarisbury Green Fareham In August Brought In £600 for the Rnli It Was the Idea of Teenagers Stuart Palmer and David Peagram Who With the Help Of
A 'Mayday' Fair held at the Palmer home, Sarisbury Green, Fareham, in August brought in £600 for the RNLI. It was the idea of teenagers Stuart Palmer and David Peagram who, with the help of Stuart's sister. Carmen, set up a... - View image in PDF
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H.M. Destroyer Whitshed
JUNE 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 7.20 in the morning the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asked for the services of the lifeboat to land an injured man from a destroyer coming into the roads, and at 7.40 A.M....
(Below) Selsey Lifeboat John and Henry Skynner
(Below) Se/sey lifeboat John and Henry Skynner was built in 1885 and took part in the London Lord Mayor's Show of that year before going on station. She was 35ft long. 7ft 6in beam, pulled ten oars and was fitted with water ballast tanks... - View image in PDF
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Staithes and Runswick - Atlantic 21 Eihs Sinclair
Mrs Vera Morris, wife of the senior partner in Sinclair Roche and Temperley, the firm of solicitors which funded the new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat, christens her Eft's Sinclair after the founder of the firm at a ceremony held at... - View image in PDF
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Mary Anne
Swanage, Dorset. At 12.44 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a two-masted fishing vessel, Mary Anne, had hoisted a distress signal east of Durlston Head.
Her...