Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported that a barge was making signals of distress three miles east-north-east of the point. The motor life-boat Greater London, Civil...
Plymouth: The Duke and Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the city's Lord Mayor, Councillor Ivor Thomas, are welcomed by Commander F. R. H. Swann, CBE RNVR, then chairman of the Institution . . .. - View image in PDF
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The Mumbles raft race in aid of the RNLI is in its 23rd year Photo: South Wales Evening Post. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARF BOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
An Irish Lights steamer bad been bombed and sunk by German aeroplanes, when carryto ing reliefs for light-ships from Rosslare to the Coningbeg Light-vessel, but...
The s.s. Slcane', of Helsingborg, whilst bound from Stock- holm to Calais with a cargo of timber, stranded on the Whitby Bock during the evening of the 30th November. As ! the weather was fine and the sea smooth ; the fishermen put off...
milestone (/.).' The Duke of Kent meets crew members who had themselves built their boathouse; they are introduced by Senior Crew Member Henry Slade. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Folkestone Herald. - View image in PDF
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The Boulmer life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle being waved away on 1st April, 1968, when she left her station for the last time.. - View image in PDF
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Peterhead's New Tyne Class Lifeboat On Her Slipway Ready For The Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 early on the morning of the 15th of June, 1953, during fog, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had gone ashore off North Cheek, Robin Hood's Bay.
The No. 1 life-boat Man/ Ann Hep-...