THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service during the past year to the Blyth Coast Life-Saving Company. As a result of their efforts nine members of the crew of the s...
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The Fishwives of Cullercoats. - View image in PDF
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Above: Oban Harbour, where the rescue took place. The lifeboat berth is marked to the bottom left of the picture. p iure A*« fiims Ltd. - View image in PDF
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JULY 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2.15 A.M. the KinnairdHead coastguard reported a vessel ashore, firing signals of distress, a quarter of a mile west of Cairnbulg lookout. A light N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 23rd November, 1938, the motor life-boat rescued the crews, four in number, of the two barges Astrild and Grecian.— Rewards: Bronze medal, letters of thanks, and monetary awards amounting to £49 14s....
The casualties are brought ashore and taken to hospital if necessary.. - View image in PDF
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On the 29th Nov. the Life-boat Christopher L-udlow, of this station, rescued 6 men from the fish- ing hooker Littte Queen, of Dungarvan, which had lost her mast and was leaking.
There was a heavy cross-sea and a...
IN the account of the wreck of the trawler Ben Doran and the courageous efforts made to rescue her crew, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, we quoted a passage from a letter, received from a resident in the Shet- lands, in...
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Launching The Hartlepool Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Launching The Penlee Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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