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Lanzarote lifesavers I shot these photographs in Playa Blancha, Lanzarote recently - the only lifeboats I saw in the Canary Islands! You are welcome to use them to illustrate foreign lifeboats.
Michael Osbaldston South...
Category: Correspondence
Services by Shore-Boats (7)
TORBAY, DEVON. At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea.
The crew of three were seen clinging to the keel. The call...
Category: Services
A Bronze-Medal Service at Longhope
AT 7.20 on the evening of 21st February, 1936, a large trawler was seen to have gone ashore at Brims Ness, at the entrance of the aith in which the life- boat house is situated. The motor life-boat herself, however, the Thomas McCunn, was...
Category: Services
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1887
Lives saved.
Ackergill fishing boats 30 •4rm, schooner, of Liverpool, saved vessel and 4 Aurora, dandy, of Hull — re- mained by vessel.
Avenir, brig, of Krageroe—as- sisted to save vessel and 7...
Category: Services
Mercury Direct
4*MALTA 2 WEEKS 4-STAR HALF BOARD with a 3rd week FREE on B&B fr. only PRICE INCLUDES 2 WEEKS HB, 1 WEEK B&B. FLIGHTS & AIRPORT TRANSFERS.
• NO SINGLE SUPPLEMENTS IN WINTER • OTHER DURATIONS AVAILABLE...
Category: Advertisement
Fidget
On the evening of the 4th May the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was in difficulties some distance S.E. of Shanklin pier. The life-boat did not go out, as a motor boat was standing by the yacht. Later the yacht sailed in...
The Late Mr. G. L. Watson
Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution, 1887 to 1904.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Coxswain Henry 'Downtide' West
The late Coxswain Henry 'Downtide' West.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (2)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of December, 1954, a message was received from Passage East that a small fishing boat was in distress between Duncannon and Broom Head.
At 12.38 the...
A Hundred Years Ago
KESSINGLAXD, SUFFOLK.—In the ac- count we gave, in our 15th Number, of the establishment of a life-boat by the seamen of Scratby, in Norfolk, we stated that we hoped to see this novel feature in the cause of "preservation of life from...
Category: Articles