AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
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The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
When the Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the Institution, visited Workington last year he met members of the crew and also officers and members of both Workington and Maryport ladies' guilds. He presented the silver badge to the... - View image in PDF
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The decision to find an overall winner was extremely difficult but in the end the category winners were: Catshill Rainbows, Bromsgrove Remember the Four Point Water Safety Code 13), Swanage Middle School, Swanage Home Education Advisory...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire.—About 1.0 in the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1951, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that two Meteor jet aeroplanes had crashed into the cliffs at Bempton in a mist. Later, he said it was between the...
The Dutch Medina lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (below), which visited Poole in early June, demonstrates the exceptional manoeuvrability of her jet propulsion off the Shingle Bank.. - View image in PDF
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Some of the 100 guests in the garden of Mrs Denis Wiffen ofMeols, Wirral. They enjoyed a strawberry lunch with wine organised last summer on behalf of Hoylake ladies' guild. Mrs Wiffen can be seen standing in the background on the left... - View image in PDF
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BLAKENEY, NORFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently stationed a life-boat at Blakeney, at the north extremity of Norfolk, at which place a crew of fishermen perished last year in attempting to rescue a shipwrecked crew. This...
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THE Institution is again issuing a Life- boat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it hopes that many...
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