141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621 on Sunday,...
Neil Marlow Pictured With His Wife Diane and Daughter Kylie and (Right) In Action On His Sailboard. - View image in PDF
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Injured climbers rescued from foot of cliffs in heavy surfThe Helmsman of Bude's inshore lifeboat, Micky Sims, has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum following the rescue of two...
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...
THE list of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the New Year Honours for 1957 was:— C.B.E.
Alderman T. J. Patterson, chairman of the Carrickfergus branch.
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Captain Alexander Finlayson, D.S.C., honorary secretary of the Storn- oway station branch, was appointed M.B'.E. in the 1956 New Year Honours..
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In the first year of war life-boats were launched to the rescue 1108 times and rescued 2302 lives. They rescued more lives in this one year of war than in the last five years of peace. They rescued on the average 44 lives a week. In the last...
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An ElectroMotion mobility vehicle " i s proven to make life better k That's the conclusive result of our recent survey of 1,000 users, who were asked for their views on how their vehicles had affected and changed their...
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HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
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Hauling up: Coxswain Davies is holding one of the ropes which have taken the lifeboat's weight while the winch wire was attached. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Peter Davies. - View image in PDF
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