Life-boat 70-002, Ullapool, Ross and Cromarty - At 6.2 p.m. on 25th November, 1966, the police told the assistant district inspector, who was in command of the life-boat 70-002, that flashing lights had been sighted in the vicinity of Martin...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—-At 10.20 P.M. on the 1st June the coastguard saw a flare at sea about four miles out. The life-boat was off service for survey and a motor boat manned by two men put out and searched. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing,...
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Rescue cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (left) and R. S. - View image in PDF
Platou of Norway. Both are designed to accompany their fishing fleets to sea.. - View image in PDF
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Two life-boats were named in Scotland in July, 1950, at St. Abbs and Buckie.
They are both gifts from Glasgow.
St. Abbs The new St. Abbs boat has been built out of a legacy from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
AT a ceremony in the Council Chamber at Fowey, Cornwall, on the 7th of December, 1959, Lieut.-Commander H.
H. Harvey, Western District Inspector, handed the vellum commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the establish-...
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Some of the happiest culls on our lifeboats lire 'Christmas runs' to lightvessels and isolated lighthouses.. - View image in PDF
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Above - the rescued family. - View image in PDF
safe and well back at the station,. - View image in PDF
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Ready and waiting... Sir John F/s/?er slung from her impressive gantry during her naming ceremony - photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Richard Vaughan (right) presents a cheque for £1,500 to Rear Admiral Graham (left) and the Stockbridge branch after the clay pigeon shoot.. - View image in PDF
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THE TIDE WAS HIGH for the RNLI on September 26, bringing lifeboat people from round the coast, and many inland cities, towns and villages as well, to join with racegoers for this year's Ascot Charity Race Day. The six 'maroons',...
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