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In May, 1970, When Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, Who Is a Keen Member of the Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society,
In May, 1970, when Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a keen member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was visiting Minehead, Somerset, he found IRB No. 177 being launched on exercise. This IRB is fitted with inner tubes. Older... - View image in PDF
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Here and There
'A Queen's Gala' will be staged on Sunday June 10 in the beautiful grounds of Pitcaple Castle, Aberdeenshire, where Mary Queen of Scots was entertained in 1562. An afternoon of fun will include dancing scenes from the life of...
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Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st April to the 31st December, 1855
February 25.—The ship Simoon, of Liverpool, during foggy weather, struck on a sunken rock in St. Bride's Bay. Six men went off to her assistance in a shore boat, and after some difficulty, from the thickness of the fog, they succeeded in...
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Listings
Operational changes in North East EnglandEvery five years each stretch of the UK and Irish coastlines undergoes a Coast Review. Senior RNLI operational personnel and trustees visit the lifeboat stations and assess whether the right class,...
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Our Inland Branches. Henley-On-Thames
LEAVING the main line at Twyford on the ; Great Western Railway, we proceed by a small local line to Henley, passing through Shiplake, a small station where the j Thames is crossed. This village is situ- ated at the foot of hilly slopes, on...
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The S.S. Vancouver City
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—14th Sep- ** tember, 1939. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless SOS call from the s.s. Vancouver City, of Bideford.
She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons...
Notes and News
LIFE-BOAT DAY was held throughout the area of Greater London on 2nd May, and a gross sum of about £2,514 was raised. A number of separate Days were held in different parts of London in 1920 and 1921, but this is the first Greater London...
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Charlotte Kilner
About 11 o'clock in the morning of the 6th July a ketch stranded on the Barber Sands. The accident was observed, and as the vessel failed to float off the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was despatched to her assistance. There was a strong...
The S.S. Araton
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, a local shipping agency asked if the life-boat would land an injured man from the S.S. Araton, of Stock- holm, which was lying two miles south-west of the Lightning...
Pinta
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, a message came from the Warden Point Look-out that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles off Shoeburyness.
At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London,...