— The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 11.45 A.M. on the 23rd February, as a whole N. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and a snow blizzard, and some fishing boats were still at sea. She found the Scarborough fishing boat S. B...
MAY 27TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A small pulling boat was in difficulties, but the two men aboard managed to get to land without help.- Rewards, £6 8s..
The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Fighting Her Way Out. - View image in PDF
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The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat at North Sunderland. - View image in PDF
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The motor life-boats at Clacton-on-Sea and Walton and Frinton bringing in the barge T.T.H., of London, on 27th January, 1935. - View image in PDF
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Top picture - The beautifully restored pulling and sailing lifeboat. Queen Victoria, opens the flotilla closely followed by state-of-the art Severn class lifeboat. Fraser Flyer /above right).. - View image in PDF
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Schoolgirl Robynne Stenner cooked up a novel way of helping the lifeboats. Ten-year-old Robynne, together with her family, helped the Midsomer and Radstock branch to man the stall at the Bath and West show in May.. - View image in PDF
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Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 8.50, on the evening of the 29th of August, 1950, it was learned that a small pulling boat from Caol Ha Distillery had been carried south through the Sound of Islay and would be unable to return against the tide....
'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.
It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...
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SEPTEMBER 6TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.41 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small pulling boat was in difficulties 2 1/2 miles S.E. from Berwick Pier, and the motor life-boat J. and W. was launched at...