NOV. 2 0 T H . - MARGATE, KENT. At 10.45 A.M. the coastguard reported that a minesweeper was sinking, as a result of enemy action, a mile east of the Tongue Light-vessel. The minesweeper was the Mastiff. Five minutes later the motor...
Mrs Ann Ritchie, in company with Major-General Ralph Farrant, comes aboard Arun class lifeboat 54-06, The Gough Ritchie, for which she is providing the funds, to be welcomed by the builder, William Osborne (r). The Gough Ritchie, which will... - View image in PDF
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This fight till you drop was the idea of publican Jim Kelleway of the Lord Nelson, Poole Quay. Champion male jouster was Peter Taylor and top maiden Emma Southwood, appropriately enough a member of Poole and Bournemouth branch of the British... - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.8 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German fishing boat Angela had an injured man on board, who needed a doctor. The boat was due...
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Sidney Cann of Appledore, who was appointed bowman in 1922, became second coxswain in 1931 and has been coxswain since 1933. Since he became a boat's officer Appledore life-boats have been...
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I LOOK out of my window, and find that the snow is falling thickly, and that the wind is blowing in from the sea. I raise the Bash and listen, and hear the roar of the rising tide upon the beach. It is the boom of the growing...
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June 30th, 1931, on the occasion of the Prince's visit to Eastbourne to lay the foundation stone of the Princess Alice Memorial Hospital. With the Prince are (left to right) Mr. Norman S. Holland, Chairman, Mrs. Astley Roberts, President... - View image in PDF
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Three generations of the Cannon family aboard the Ramsgate lifeboat. The youngest, Ian (right) joined the crew on his 17th birthday, while father Roy (centre) has been coxswain for 18 years, and grandfather Bob (left) was previously the... - View image in PDF
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Hastings, Sussex - At 12.43 p.m. on 10th October, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that six men aboard the dredger William All Press were in danger and the assistance of the life-boat was requested to take them off. At 12.57 the...
A record number of visitors to this year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, visited the R.N.L.I. stand between 4th-14th January, 1967. Principal exhibits were the new 44-foot steel life-boat John F. Kennedy, open for... - View image in PDF
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