FEBRUARY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At six in the evening the harbour master reported to the life-boat station a wireless message from the S.S. Wicklow Head, of Belfast, that she was making for Torbay to land a badly injured man. A local shipping...
THE brig Superb, of Aberdeen, was wrecked on the Shipwash Sand, in April, 1829, out of which three men were saved (two having died in the rigging), by Win. Mudd and S. Wordley, masters of two smacks, after persevering exertion during fifteen...
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Mrs K Hanson of Staithes Yorkshire Pinning A Life-Boat Flag On Andrew Blowitt Aged 3. - View image in PDF
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(Below) Rear View of the Jacket, Showing The Retro Reflective Tape On Its Safety Harness. - View image in PDF
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Crew of the Plymouth life-boat. Front row (I. to r.) M. Keane, reserve, D. Biscombe, emergency mechanic, F. W. Amos, 2nd coxswain, W. H. 6. Rogers, mechanic, T. Keane, assistant rnschanic.
Back row, R, Cotlerell, emergency... - View image in PDF
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A Storm Force Rally was part of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Worcester Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. The Mersey Class Royal Shiphght made her way inland to the Worcester Rowing Club quay for the occasion.. - View image in PDF
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AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th of January, and presided over by Mr. "W. H. HAINES, Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of...
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Having a hall? Lord Provost Robert Cray of Glasgow teed off in fine style to celebrate the raising of £2,105 for the City of Glasgow's Lifeboat Appeal Fund at a golf tournament held by Whitbread Scotland. The dimpled downpour took... - View image in PDF
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1955, the doctor on the Isle of Eigg telephoned the life-boat station that he had a patient suffering from appen- dicitis, who must be taken to hospital at once. As...
(Above) Two of a set of six Gaelic coffee glasses (or wine glasses), made by Cavan Crystal Ltd. Each glass carries a different decoration: the RNLI house flag, crest, an ILB, 44' Waveney lifeboat and two... - View image in PDF
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