On the morning of the 5th December, the motor fishing coble Primrose, of Whitby, was seen to be in difficulties about a mile E.S.E.
from Whitby Rock Buoy, and,the Motor Life-boat Margaret Marker Smith was launched at 11.25...
Coxswain Henry Blogg is shaking hands with the Cantatria's captain. The captain's wife and children and one member of his crew are on his left (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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The Royal National Life-Boat Institution's drama group, 'The Grosvenor Circle', staged their third production, 'Make it Murder', by Jack Last, at the Abbey Community Association Theatre on 27th and 28th March, 1969. In...
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DANISH SHIP HELPED At 7.33 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a coaster with a deck cargo two and a half miles south-south-west of Ventnor appeared to have broken down, so at 7.45 the lifeboat Jesse Lumb was launched....
At 10A.M.
on the llth February a telegram was received stating that a vessel in Red Bay, co. Antrim, was flying signals of distress. The motor Life-boat William and Laura was at once despatched to her assistance,...
The Eastbourne lifeboat Jane Hollandwas one of several RNLI boats involved in the Dunkirk evacuation. She was later found, adrift and badly damaged, and is pictured under repair. Mark Child of Collectors' Books would like to locate more... - View image in PDF
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This boat was exhibited at the National Boat Show in London, in January 1957. - View image in PDF
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During the ceremony at Calshot photgraph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Left: Launching the experimental boat at DML with a Trent class lifeboat shown behind).. - View image in PDF
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The barge Sepoy, of Dover, on the sands at Cromer. Her sails in ribands. Her crew of two men taking to the rigging. A life-saving rocket on its way to her.. - View image in PDF
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