Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: ILB Crew Member H. E. "Dilly" Appleton with the youngest of 121 people taken off the pleasure cruiser Queen of the Broads which ran aground on Breydon Water in thick fog on Tuesday June 19. After being... - View image in PDF
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Bridlington lifeboat, the 37' Oakley William Henry and Mary King, launches to escort fishing cobles and motor fishing vessels back to harbour through strong gale force winds: January 28, 1975.
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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Again on the 14th November, two small vessels, the pilot cutter IVhim, and the lugger Saucy Lass, were seen to be at anchor on the weather side of the Holm Sand, in an extremely dangerous position, and with sig- nals of distress flying. A...
Men of Bumpstead and District branch are not afraid to grab an oar and jump into their pulling lifeboat Sir William Hilary. Guiding her through the streets of Steeple Bumpstead as part of the local carnival can be a profitable task for this... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services Continued 22, Feb 3,10,13 Atlantic 21: Dec 8 (twice), Jan 21 and Feb 10 Red Bay, Co Antrim C class: Dec 13, Jan 15 and 23 Redcar, Cleveland Atlantic 21: Nov 10, 24, Dec 12,28, 29 (twice), Jan 16 (twice), 18, 31 and Feb 15...
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Whit by, Sunday October 19, 1980: At 1030 a converted ship's lifeboat was seen heading towards the harbour entrance.
Conditions were very dangerous, with a very heavy swell and breaking seas at the bar and in the... - View image in PDF
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BIDEFORD or Barnstaple Bay lies on the north coast of Devonshire, just within Luudy Island at the entrance of the Bristol Channel.
From the high projecting cliffs of Hartland Point, which rise 330 feet above the sea, a...
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THE KING'S APPRECIATION OF THE INSTITUTION'S WORK.
In reply to a letter from the Chairman of the Institution, drawing attention to the splendid services rendered by the Life-boats in connexion with the War, and the...
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IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...
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