The Hatch boat (18-01), which was illustrated in The Life-boat for March, 1967, has been modified and is now self-righting. She can be used as a boarding boat to take life-boat crews from the shore to life-boats which remain afloat, and she... - View image in PDF
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WHITBY.—Two fishing-cobles belonging to this port, the Star of Peace and the Mary Ann, were observed to be making for the harbour on the evening of the 27th July. On account of the heavy sea and the ebb tide running out it was seen that...
1977: Some of the present ILB crew and branch members with their training board: (I. to r.) Jim Graham, DLA, Senior Helmsman Colin Akitt, Crew Members Derek Wilson, Robert Bell, Dick Jordan and George Ritchie, and George Egdell, honorary... - View image in PDF
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and photo (D) catches the moment when the casualty's crew arrive on deck and are waiting to be taken aboard the lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. The American steamer Am-Mer-Mar had gone ashore on the Goodwin Sands, but she got off without help. - Rewards, £31 17s. 6d..
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
IN the article called " A Roam Through the Annual Report," which appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that the number of places in which Street Collections had been held in 1928 was nearly 800, and that in this...
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Trapped by tide A LIFEGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of Newquay, Cornwall, ILB station at 1555 on Wednesday August 8, 1979, to tell him that two girls were trapped by the tide at Lamorna Cove. The ILB, manned by Helmsman...
AMONG those associated with the life-boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours list were :— K.B.
MR. E. M. COOPER-KEY, M.P., a member of the Committee of Management.K.B.E. VICE-ADMIRAL W. K....
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K.B. Major-General Ralph Henry Farrant, a member of the Committee of Management.
M.B.E. Mr. Anthony Patrick Mac- Grory, J.P., honorary secretary, Campbeltown station branch..
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