A bouquet for the Lady Mayoress of London, Lady Leaver, presented by Charlotte Elphick, niece of Mr John Norton (background r}, past Prime Warden of the Fishmonger's Company. With them are (I to r) the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the... - View image in PDF
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Present from Denmark: The Holbek Tambourkorps Band of Flutes and Drums from Denmark paid a visit to the Anstruther lifeboat station during a tour of Fife. Before leaving they played a selection of well known airs and after taking a... - View image in PDF
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The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, The Mumbles; Coxswain William Jones, Holyhead; Coxswain Griffiths Jones, Porthdinllaen; Coxswain Arthur Liddon, Dover; Second Coxswain Peter Gibbons, Lowestoft; Former Second Coxswain... - View image in PDF
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HAYLE.—The brig Albert Wilhelm, of Barth, Germany, bound from the Isle of Man for Fowey, in ballast, bore up into St. Ives Bay, on the 17th October, during a strong gale from the N.N.W.
and a heavy sea, became embayed,...
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 29th of December, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Red Lancer, of Fleet- wood, which had anchored near the harbour entrance had hoisted a flag signal indicating that...
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 23rd day of March, 1889, The Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P., in the Chair, the...
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(Above) After her naming ceremony at Shoreham on Thursday, May 2, by Lady Egremont, president of the ladies' lifeboat guilds, Mary Gabriel, 37' 6" Rather Class, was taken to her station, Hoylake, in Cheshire. A service of... - View image in PDF
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Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.
—About 4.30 in the afternoon, on the 6th of September, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port Erin life-boat station that the fishing re- search motor vessel William...
The new Plymouth boat (below), like those of Whitby and Jersey, is is a 44' Waveney. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Western Morning News.. - View image in PDF
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(Above) A modem lifeboat is complex... |ust a small part of the wiring, switches and circuit breakers for the engine and equipment in the process of inslallation.. - View image in PDF
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