by courtesy of Evening Argus', Brighton West Hove County Primary Infants' School, Sussex, answered the 'Blue Peter' B.B.C. television appeal for paperbacked books to help provide replacement rescue craft forthe existing four... - View image in PDF
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LAST Christmas a number of life-boats again took out Christmas parcels from their towns to men on neighbouring lightships. The Weymouth life-boat took them to the Shambles, Selsey to the Owers, Barry Dock to the Breaksea, Margate to the...
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The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...
Below: Mrs Maud Russ of Portishead branch receives the congratulations of her fellow supporters on her 100th birthday.. - View image in PDF
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WHITBY.—On the 1st October, at 4 P.M., the Life-boat Harriott Forteath was launched and put four of the crew of a Cornish fishing-boat, the Matchless, on board their vessel, which was riding at anchor near Whitby Rock, and was in great...
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EARL HOWE, the former chairman of the Committee of Management, has been appointed honorary chairman for life of the Institution. This appoint- ment brings to an end an active period of work on behalf of the life-boat service extending over...
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Helmsman Donald Jones (right) has been awarded a bronze medal and Crew Member Paul Frost a medal service certificate for the rescue, in a force 7 gusting 9 wind, of two boys cut off by the tide. photograph by courtesy of Philip... - View image in PDF
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JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6 P.M. information was received from the Mersey Dock Board that a fishing vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank, west of the training wall. There was not sufficient water to get near the vessel, but she was...
On the night of the 26th February, the brig Sisters, of Whitby, laden with coals, was driven on shore on the South Barber Sand, off Caistor. Her signals of distress being seen from the shore, the Caistor boatmen proceeded to launch the...