On the left are two of the three stamps issued in 1963 to mark the holding of the Ninth International Life-boat Conference in Edinburgh. - View image in PDF
On the right are two stamps from the Netherlands with life-boat themes.. - View image in PDF
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The Chairman of the Committee of Management, Capt. The Hon.
V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., receiving a copy of the film 'Life-boat' from the deputy managing director of the Perkins Engines Group,... - View image in PDF
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(Below) In the calm after the storm the tiny gap into which the lifeboat was manoeuvred can clearly be seen. At the time of the service it was dark, blowing Force 10 and with a large surge running. Photos Graeme Story, Lerwick. - View image in PDF
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1st August to 31st October, 1935.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive, with address by the assistant district organizing secretary.
HAYES.—Annual meeting on 31st October. Speaker :...
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THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Life- boat Station was situated at the end of Rosslare Point, a spit several miles long...
Category: Services
Jan. 2.—Three men s-aved a man who had fallen overboard from the hrigantine Thomas, of Lowestoft, which was lying at anchor oS Lowestoft Harbour.—Reward, 15s.
Jan. 5.—Six men saved four fishermen whose boat hnd been...
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ON the 1st of April in the present year occurred one of those fearful wrecks which ever and anon startle even the inhabitants of these sea-girt islands, accustomed as they have been from time immemorial to the periodical sacrifice, by...
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Sunken speed boat WHILE FISHING with rods and lines from a 14' Dejon motor cruiser, Sandpiper, anchored 150 yards off Tan-y-Bwlch beach, about half a mile south of Aberystwyth Harbour, on Sunday, July 6, 1975, Richard Wheeler and John...
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On the 13th February the Appledore Life-boat, Hope, saved the crew of 3 men from the wreck of the schooner Lydney Trader, of Barnstaple. That vesselhad sailed last from Caldy Island, and had tried to get into Barnstaple Har- bour, but failed...