There are 199 steps up Church Stairs in Whitby and Mrs Eileen Whittingham (above) climbed them all last May. Her effort was considerably more than it sounds because she carried it out on artificial limbs, her legs having been amputated... - View image in PDF
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Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 7.12 on the morning of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Dover that two vessels had been in collision near the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.31 the coastguard reported...
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, the honorary secretary of the Life-boat Stamp Club, will be very glad to receive from readers of The Life-boat any stamps of the King Edward VIII issue which they will be...
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There will be single commemorative medals and sets of medals in gold, silver and bronze. These depicted here show the R.N.L.I, badge which will be on the reverse common to all, Henry Greathead's Original, Sir William Hillary, the founder...
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Three stages in the service by the Dungeness life-boat in June, 1966, to the sloop Idle Moment after she had spent an anxious night riding out a storm—the life-boat alongside the sloop, the sloop safe in Folkestone harbour, and Coxswain T. R... - View image in PDF
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from page 58 no doubt be true to say that this fourth period—say the last 20 to 25 years— has seen the greatest and most far reaching changes in the history of the RNLI.
These changes include the advent of the small...
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Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat, who helped to rescue the crew of nine of the trawler Granton Osprey on December 13, 1972, is this year's recipient of the £5 'The Maud Smith Award for courage, in memory...
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The Coastguard Association A VOLUNTARY national organisation to look after the interests of Coastguards is now in process of formation. Entitled 'The Coastguard Association', it will be open to all serving and retired regular and...
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Danish coaster capsized RAME HEAD Coastguard reported to Plymouth deputy launching authority at 1403 on January 16 that the Danish coaster Merc Enterprise was in serious difficulties 23 miles south of Plymouth breakwater, and that her crew...
One of the delightful watercolours specially commissioned for Brian Martin's Tales of Time and Tide'. This is the Lowestoft lifeboat sucesfully rescuing a cow - one of the tales recounted by Tommy Knott..
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