28 saved from Bulgarian vessel aground in southerlv gale «/ ^5 Stornoway's Arun class lifeboat Sir Max Aitken II rescued the entire crew of 28 from the Bulgarian fish factory ship Condor when she was stranded on rocks some 26 miles...
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Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose with her crew and the lifeboat people of Kent and Hampshire, as well as neighbouring stations, who had gathered for her naming.
Music was by the Junior Band of the Royal Marines and fanfares... - View image in PDF
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AT 2.24 on the morning of the llth January, 1962, the Deal coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Margate life-boat station, Mr. H. B.
Fleet, that a small vessel had been seen by the Dutch motor vessel...
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On the left are two of the three stamps issued in 1963 to mark the holding of the Ninth International Life-boat Conference in Edinburgh. - View image in PDF
On the right are two stamps from the Netherlands with life-boat themes.. - View image in PDF
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MAY 19TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
At midnight on the 18th the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Stornoway coastguard that a fishing boat was in difficulties, with her engine broken down....
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 6 A.M.
on the 3rd January, 1939, the watchman at the life-boat station reported a steam trawler aground on the Trinity Sands. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. Watch was kept on the...
Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat City of London tows the wreck of the 34ft yacht Robbery into Chichester Harbour after she had capsized and tost her keel. (Photograph Observer Series). - View image in PDF
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