Chay Blyth signed copies of THE LIFEBOAT souvenir programme while visiting the exhibition.. - View image in PDF
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APRIL 26TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 3.30 in the afternoon a doctor telephoned that on the previous afternoon a man on Papa Stour had fallen down the cliffs and fractured a thigh. It was urgent that the man should be brought to Lerwick Hospital...
Getting 15 tonnes of lifeboat across a beach is an age-old task …
Lifeboat launch and recovery is a vital link in the lifesaving chain and the stations that cannot use afloat moorings, slipways...
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Disaster to the Rye Life-boat.
The Whole Crew Drowned.
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant...
Tuesday, 31st December, 1929.
PAID £17,250 15s. 3d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat estab- lishments....
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Lack of knowledge is thought to be the root cause of most deaths in UK and Irish waters, and the RNLI'sSea Safety mission is to counter this. GarethWeekes reportsA relatively new strand of the RNLI's work, Sea Safety was a response...
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MR. HENRY MADICK SMARDON, of Torbay, who died at Brixham on the 28th of October of last year, was a noted figure in the town, where he was affectionately known as H.M.S. Brixham. He was a retired school- master and a man of many...
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MAY 2 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea two miles N.E. of Broadstairs, but the lifeboat could find nothing, and later it was learned that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.. - View image in PDF
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