In 45 months of war out life-boats have rescued 5177 lives and our lifeboatmen have won 181 medals for gallantry..
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the af ternoon of the 29th of January, 1949, the police reported an aet-opttie down in the sea about a mile off shore between Lancing and Shoreham, and the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was...
On the 25th November, the small life- boat, the Boys', at this place, put off to the help of the schooner Assistant, of Stavanger, which was stranded on the Barber Sands during a strong wind and hazy weather.
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About ten o'clock on the night of the 21st October, during foul weather and in a thick fog, analarm was given that a vessel was in dis- tress off Polurrian Cove, about a mile and a half from the life-boat station. The Daniel J. Draper...
Lerwick: After standing by the listing Fred Everard all night, on her slow progress towards Lerwick through gale force winds, as the list increased, the 52' Barnett relief lifeboat Ramsay Dyce took off her chief engineer's wife and... - View image in PDF
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William F. G. Lord, QBE, BL, who was secretary and treasurer of Edinburgh branch from 1950 to 1964 and then secretary until 1976. Mr Lord became vice-chairman of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Lifeboat Council in 1966, a position he...
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In the course of 24 hours on 28th-29th October, 1880, the Scarborough life-boat was launched five times and rescued every life in danger—28 in all. The detail is part of a painting of the scene presented to Scarborough Corporation in 1897 by...
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US Coast Guard Experimenting With Mines For The Destruction of Icebergs. - View image in PDF
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On the 1st of April the barque Oberon, of Liverpool, ran ashore on the Causeway Bank in Cardigan Bay. She was seen from Portmadoc, and a large boat was also observed at a great distance from the land, apparently full of people. The Portmadoc...