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Naming Ceremonies In England
FOUR other naming ceremonies were held in England, in June and July, 1950, at Seaham, Clovelly, Hastings, and Teesmouth.
Seaham The new Seaham life-boat lias been built out of a legacy from the late Miss Elizabeth Elmy, of...
Category: Inaugurations
The Fundraisers
Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...
Category: Articles
Goodewind
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — In the early morning of the 21st of July, 1948, the yacht Goodewind, of Leith, was reported by the coastguard to be dragging her anchors in the bay, but she picked up moorings and seemed to be safe. The...
The S.S. Longnewton
The s.s. Long- newton, of Sunderland, when bound for London on the 19th January, struck the rocks outside Seaham Har- bour. She proceeded about a mile to sea, when she was seen to put back and hoist a signal for "immediate...
ALL SHOOK UP
Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather
It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Advertisement
All the details
The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society’s Handbook 2011 is now available, priced £6 (including postage and packaging).
It lists the names, numbers and locations of all RNLI lifeboats and station equipment,...
Category: Articles
The RNLI looks at the year's work and the future: 97,000 lives saved since 1824 continued from page 16
MR JOHN GRAY, CBE Belfast branch committee member, 1947; and Belfast branch chairman since 1969.
Mr Gray is a businassman in the export field, who gives a most able lead to this successful branch's fund raising, and in...
Category: Meetings
One Wet and Windy Sunday In May a Group of Brownies Took Part In a Beach Clean at Kingsdown Beach
One wet and windy Sunday in May a group of Brownies took part in a beach clean at Kingsdown Beach. The £30 they earned in sponsorship was given to the lifeboats. photograph by courtesy of Basil M. Kidd. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ilmatar
LYDD, DUNGENESS.—At 2 A.M. on the 18th May, the Russian barque Ilmatar got ashore off Dungeness, during a fresh gale at E.N.E., a heavy sea running. The Lifeboats Lifeboats on this part of the coast are mainly dependent on the coastguardmen...