The D class lifeboat is named in memory of Ken and Mary Stansfield and was handed over by their grandson Toby Stansfield.
Also present were the Stansfield's two sons, who had flown in from Dorset and Maryland, USA, to... - View image in PDF
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On the 20th October, a large ship was observed to be stranded on the Blackwater Bank, when the Cahore life-boat was again brought into requisition. Before reaching the bank, the ship was observed to have got off and to make sail to the...
Coxswain A E Moore and Mechanic F H Vacher On Board Newhaven Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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The Electric Winch Used For Hauling Up and Housing Motor Life-Boats. - View image in PDF
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JUNE 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Sandgate coastguard that a Hurricane fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles S.S.W. of Dungeness. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea...
By A DE LABORDETTE, Surgeon to the Hospital of Laisieux, Knight of the Legion of Honour.
THE laryngoscope has been the subject of a favourable report made to the Imperial Academy of Medicine by Professor...
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LOWESTOFT.—On the morning of the 19th July, during a strong N.E. wind, a very heavy sea, and thick weather wi th rain, the No. 2 Life-boat Stock Exchange was launched, , having brought up on Corton Mate about four and a half miles N. of...
On. the 16th October another gale was experienced, and at 2.30 P.M. signals of distress were shown by the schooners Catherine Latham and Sir Robert, which were anchored in Moelfre Bay. Their crews, numbering in all seven men, were taken into...
MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. A steamer had been reported in collision with a destroyer, but the help of the life-boat was not needed, and she was recalled by wireless. - Rewards, £11 14s.