Poole: After HRH Crown Prince Harald of Norway, Honorary Colonel of the Royal Marines, had visited Commando units at Hamworthy on November 4 he embarked in one of the Institution's latest 52ft Arun class lifeboats and was brought round... - View image in PDF
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The arrival at Spurn Point of Humber's new Arun class lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall in August, 1987 gave spectators an added bonus when she came in with three .survivors on board, having been diverted to the aid of a sinking yacht four miles... - View image in PDF
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Above: The wide aisle, with engines to the right and prop shafts to the left. - View image in PDF
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Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.35 on the night of the 23rd of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard reported a tele- phone message from the Isle of Gigha that the motor yacht Hyskeir II, of Greenock, was aground on a reef to the north of...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 2.38 a.m. on 5th July. 1966, it was reported that a small boat with a crew of four had capsized in the Solent. Two men had been rescued and it was thought the other two were near the Norris buoy. The life-boat...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.35 on the morning of the 6th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of four had been reported in difficulties some fifteen miles south- east of St....
Vellum service LAST QUARTER'S issue of THE LIFEBOAT reported a service on May 25, 1986 by Ramsey lifeboat to three yachts in trouble at the end of Isle of Man's round the island race. The three yachts were towed one after the other...
YACHT AGROUND Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.15 in the evening of the 14th of September, 1947, the Lymington police telephoned that a yacht was in distress near Warren Beach, and the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the...
Under-14 teams of Wold Junior Football League, East Yorkshire, have been competing this winter for the first time for a new football trophy for annual competition donated by the Lifeboat Crew's (Bridlington) Social Club. Fred Walkington,... - View image in PDF
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Right: Children get into the spirit of the occasion with fancy dress at Lough Swilly's station open day in 2001. - View image in PDF
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