Penlee's first motor lifeboat (1922 to 1931) wax a 45ft Watson, The Brothers. She still carried auxiliary sails. - View image in PDF
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IT was announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat that the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, had issued an invitation to each Guild to nominate two of its members, the President or Chairman and the...
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Fraserburgh lifeboat My son Jim and I were two of the people rescued by Fraserburgh lifeboat last summer when the yacht Blanche got into trouble in a force 8 gale. We were most impressed by both the efficiency and humanity of the coxswain...
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Some brave RNLI volunteers face 10m waves and force 9 gales; others find themselves at the mercy of 30 excitable 5-year-olds. So how do we help save lives from the relative safety of the...
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Cromer, June 20, 1986: Cromer townspeople donated generously towards Ruby and Arthur Reed II, the station's brand new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, and it was therefore fitting that so many should be there, joined by holidaymakers and... - View image in PDF
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Books . . .
• In 1983 was published the first part of the late Grahame Farr's comprehensive Lists of British Lifeboats, covering non self-righting, pulling and sailing boats from 1775 to 1916. Before his death later...
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Launches 41 Lives rescued 56
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 5.15 A.M. on the 16th March the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that Wick Radio had reported a vessel ashore on Hoy. She was the steam trawler Siberite, of Hull, homeward bound from the fishing grounds, with a crew of...
Early on the morning of the-16th Feb- ruary last, the same life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress from the S. S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland, bound from that port to London with coals, which vessel had struck on the Middle Cross...
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