It is always sad to record the demise of a lifeboat, even if no longer in the RNLI service.
The 35ft self righter Herbert Joy, was built in 1923 and stationed at Scarborough until 1931 and spent another six years in the... - View image in PDF
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CAISTER NORFOLK.—On the 1st Deiember the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, was launched at 6.30 P.M., and rendered some assistance to the schooner Brothers, Harwich, which had stranded on the Middle Barber Sand. The vessel ultimately floated,...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service...
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Freemen of the City: ten lifeboatmen and committee members of the Selsey lifeboat station were admitted to the Freedom of the City of London by the Chamberlain, Mr Bernard P. Harty, at the Guildhall, London, on Friday July 12. Colonel and... - View image in PDF
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Twenty-five years' service: Commander Bruce Cairns, RD, RNR, retired as chief of operations at the end of 1986. He joined the lifeboat service as a district inspector of lifeboats in 1961 and served in the Irish, South East and Southern... - View image in PDF
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Teesmouth lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Sarah Jane and James Season, was on passage to Hanlepool on August 16, 1981. under the command of Coxswain William Carter when she was informed b\ Tees Coastguard that the motor cruiser Marietta was...
WE left behind the painted buoy" That tosses at the harbour-mouth; And madly danced our hearts with joy, As fast we fleeted to the South; How fresh was every sight and sound On open main or winding shore ! We knew the merry world was...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—-During the morning of the 4th December the motor fishing coble Mayflower, at sea north of Whitby, appeared to be in difficulties, and a watch was kept on her. A strong, squally N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea....
70' Clyde class, a trawler type lifeboat designed to lie offshore in such exposed waters as the Bristol Channel and the Orkneys, and to be able to remain at sea for long periods, if necessary, without refuelling. 70-003, on show at... - View image in PDF
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