you are a full, off-shore or associate member of the RNLI, you are entitled to wear or show: (left) a 5" dinghy burgee in dark blue with lifeboat flag, price £1.25; a 12" or 8" hoist flag in dark blue with lifeboat flag... - View image in PDF
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ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 3rd of June, 1956the Polruan coastguard reported that a sailing boat moored off Portscatho seemed to be dragging her anchor. As the weather conditions were bad the life-boat Cunard,...
Marathon Oil UK offered to pay the costs of Peterhead lifeboat station for a year and last February Ed McFarland (centre r), the company's Aberdeen general manager, presented a cheque for 15,000 dollars to John Geddes (centre I),... - View image in PDF
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Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...
For the past two years, Mrs Patricia Duncan has held hunter trials in her garden in aid of the RNLI. Her daughter and gardener made the jumps—last year they even achieved a water jump, as well as different shapes and styles through the woods...
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The No. 2 Life-boat John Fielden was launched at 5.30 A.M. on the 30th November to the assistance of a, vessel, which had stranded about four miles to the north of Whitby.
The vessel turned out to be the s.s. Vos- tizza...
Spain: the rescue fleet of the Cruz Roja del Mar includes more than 320 inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
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JULY 13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. Just after 6 in the morning the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that a ship had been mined about half a mile S.S.W. of Southend pier, and the motor life-boat...
The Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is interested in the past and the present. This fine photograph, typical of the kind of pictures which members bring to light, shows the Dickinson Edleston life-boat which was stationed at Longhope,... - View image in PDF
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