A FEBRUARY gale swept the Lytham St. Anne's life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt from her moorings and eight of her crew had to set off in pursuit in the boarding boat. After a chase for a mile and a half towards Freckleton Marshes they were...
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. . . (below) after her naming, at Newhaven on September 7, 1983, the new Arun lifeboat demonstrates her manoeuvrability. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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BBIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—Bockets were seen and signal guns heard during a S.E.
wind and a very heavy sea on the evening of Sunday the 6th December. The Lifeboat Brian Sates was launched at about 7 o'clock, pulled round...
IT WAS THE YEAR I joined the lifeboat crew, and the second world war was nearly upon us. It was a bright early summer morning with a brisk breeze and I was sailing my dinghy through wavelets sparkling with the sun's jewels on their...
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Sothebys came to Dovercourt last February, thanks to Harwich and Dovercourt branch which organised this valuation session at the Cliff Hotel.
A George Jones plate was estimated at between £300 and £400: a Charles... - View image in PDF
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A large vessel with a flag of distress flying, was seen off this place during a gale of wind on the 9th January. On the Wicklow Life-boat : Robert Theophilus Garden proceeding to her, it was found she had lost her way, | and a...
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A Russian seaman took this photograph as the Duchess of Kent lifeboat (arrowed) was overturned by a huge wave. On the right the only survivor—Mr. Jackson Buchan—is shown landing from the Buckle lifeboat after being picked up by a Russian... - View image in PDF
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The naming of Arbroath's new Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape went ahead on 22 April 1994 despite the unfortunate accident sustained by the namer, HRH Princess Alexandra, two days before the ceremony. The Countess of Airlie cvo, wife of...
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