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THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.
Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given...
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Storm tow HARTLAND POINT Coastguard informed lifeboat 70-001, Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), at 0210 on February 6 that a trawler was sinking 281°T 26 miles from the Point. The lifeboat was under way by 0220 and 12 minutes...
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT. YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a convoy of...
HM COASTGUARD are to move their headquarters from London to Poole following the move already made by the RNLI. A new central search and rescue information room will be established at the new Coastguard headquarters. These moves were...
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Many a slip: Members of the Kent Messenger Social Club heard to utter an oath had to pay for their slips of the tongue. A swear box behind the bar and raffles raised £500 for East Mailing branch and chairman of the Social Club Alan Mole... - View image in PDF
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JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhos- colyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth be- longed to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to August 31st, 1952 - 77,894 One Hundred Years Old By I. O. Evans,...
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The Life-boat in Verse. An anthology covering a hundred years, a commentary by Sir John Gumming and Charles "' the Royal National Life-boat Institution by Hodder Selected with Vince. Published for & Stoughton. 25. 6d.MUCH verse...
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