THERE were exceptionally heavy gales at the end of May and the beginning of June, 1938. Thirty-two life-boats were launched on service during the five days from 29th May to 2nd June, the majority on the south-east and south coasts, and they...
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.43 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a man had fallen off., or had been washed off, the rocks at Clodgy Point. At 2.45 the IRB launched in a fresh west-north-westerly breeze and rough sea. The...
Fenit Life-Boat Crew Return From A 12-Hour Search After Flares Seen Over Loop Head On 25Th August. - View image in PDF
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The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...
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ONE OF THE PEOPLE upon whom honorary life governorship was bestowed at the 1973 annual meeting of the RNLI was Professor William W. Flexner, pho, in recognition of the very valuable help which he has given to the lifeboat service in the...
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XXXVIII.—WALMER.
Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.
TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...
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[This interview was broadcast in the B.B.C. programme Radio Newsreel on 19th of March, 1953, when Mr. Valentine Selsey of the B.B.C. spoke to Miss Madge Tart and Mrs. Ellen Tart, of Dungeness. It is reproduced by the courtesy of the B.B.C.] ...
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The lions of Trafalgar stand guard as volunteers and supporters man the displays and collect cash {above) while Stanley Potter aka Stormy Stan fteftl looks after the children.. - View image in PDF
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On the 7th October the brig- antine Arion, of Workington, coal laden, ran aground on the bar ofi' Dundalk, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time, with a high sea running. The Dun- dalk life-boat was at once launched and...
Visits to fund raisers . . . While Anthony Oliver, DOS (Southern) was calling on lock-keeper, Lyn David, and his wife (I.) at Marsh Lock, Henley-on-Thames, the Chief Inspector of Navigation, Thames Water Authority, Mr D. Cruickshank, passed... - View image in PDF
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