Wedding Day Shout
As Lough Swilly Crew Member Francy Burns took the microphone for his wedding speech, his bride-to be, Helen, was surprised to hear the sound of a pager instead of the traditional declarations of love....
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On the 28th October, about noon, a vessel was observed to be fast drifting on Whitby Bocks. She, however, succeeded in clearing the rocks, and was driven with tremendous force on the beach. The wind was then blowing a hurricane from the...
The Annual Meeting The Prince of Wales and Coxswain Blogg of Cromer Standing. - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Approaching The Mill House Ruswarp Where Two Women and One Man Were Rescued. - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat House and Slipway St Mary's Isles of Scilly (See Page 51). - View image in PDF
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During the visit of the Prince of Wales, in December last, to Londes- borough Park, John Owston, coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, belonging to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, was in attendance upon the Earl of Londesborough...
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During September, life-boats went out on service 60 times and rescued 40 lives.
A BOY IN A RUBBER DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were...
Category: Services
DURING 1937 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 21 British vessels.
Four of these services were by France, 2 by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, 1 by Norway and 15 by the United...
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JANUARY DURIXG January life-boats were launched 41 times and rescued 37 lives.
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FISHING FLEET Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at...
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