Ijmuiden - Cromer Strong links are being forged between Cromer lifeboat station on one side of the North Sea and the Netherlands lifeboat station at Ijmuiden on the other. Over the weekend of May 8 to 11, Ijmuiden lifeboat Johanna Louisa... - View image in PDF
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Canter, Norfok. — At 7.40 in the morning of. the 15th of June, 1948, continuous short blasts on a steam whistle could be heard to the north-east, and five minutes later the Great Yar- mouth coastguard telephoned that a tanker was...
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 11.15 p.m. on zoth January, 1966, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the Border Sailing Club rescue boat, with one man on board her, was adrift on the rocks at the west side of the bay, her...
AT 5.18 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, a Liberian ship wire- lessed that the S.S. Western Farmer, of New York, on passage from Norfolk (Virginia) to Bremen with a cargo of coal, had been in collision with the Norwegian tanker...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles south-east of Foreland. At 3.45 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was...
to -voluntary zvorkers at the 1998 Annual Presentation of Awards Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded three Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bars to the Gold Badge and 50 Gold Badges....
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On the afternoon of Wednesday, the 15th November, while the wind was blowing freshfrom the S.S.E., fifteen vessels came to anchor in the bay, being unable to get round St. David's Head. Some were in the most exposed and dangerous part...
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A good deal: the Thames was much calmer than Bruce Forsyth when he was taken for a ride in a D class inflatable lifeboat. The lifeboat was the result of a special Christmas version of Brace's TV show Play Your Cards Right when the... - View image in PDF
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.40 on the night of the 10th of August, 1950, the Lade coastguard reported a small boat in distress off Broome Hill, Camber • Sands. Ten minutes later the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a calm sea,...