At 4 p.m. on 29th September, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v. Dunedin Star,of London, needed to be brought ashore.
At 9.45 the Solomon Browne life-boat was launched. The tide was ebbing. A doctor and ambulance crew were...
Appledore, June 21, 1986: Mrs Trevor Thomas demonstrates the only way to christen an Atlantic 21. In this case it was Manchester and District No XXXII, funded by an appeal inspired by a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, Mr Trevor Thomas. The... - View image in PDF
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BBC Wales are filming a new drama based on the novel Ennals Point by Alun Richards.
The novel is about life in a fictitious lifeboat village and the six part television series is being filmed at The Mumbles. Philip Madoc... - View image in PDF
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The District Inspector of Life-boats for the South East, Mr. R. D. Pike, being briefed by Staff- Sergeant R. Fennessey, U.S.A.F.,about the pilot's survival kit used with the McDonnell F-4C Phantom II fighter.. - View image in PDF
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DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
APRIL 23RD. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At about 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel about three miles south of Portland Bill was showing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched...
On the evening of the 19th November the Icelandic steam trawler Geysir, of Reykjavik, was in the Pentland Firth, homeward bound from Grimsby. She carried a crew of sixteen and two passengers, one of whom was a girl.
A...
The relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher alongside the sinking pilot boat St Olave. - View image in PDF
Photo Michael Pett. - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 8th January, 1914.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, G.B., C.M.G., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance...
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