Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Totland Bay coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties one mile south of Highcliffe and at 3.0 o'clock the motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
TREATED WITH THE RESPECT (AND THE PAINTS) SHE DESERVES! The old Shields life-boat the Tyne, now preserved as shown here, is well protected with B.P.L. materials—paints which themselves hold an enviable reputation for service under the...
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Thursday, 10th November, 1932.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by the Hon. GEORGE COLVIIXE, in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :— Ancient Order of Foresters £ ...
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IN 1920 the Institution first experi- mented with a motor caterpillar tractor to be used in place of horses for launch- ing Life-boats on flat sandy beaches.
There are now eleven on the coast.
The type...
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Moelfre: H. L. C. Greig, chairman of H. - View image in PDF
Clarkson (Holdings) Ltd, strikes out the pin to launch the 37ft 6in Rather Horace Clarkson.. - View image in PDF
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Clarke, Chapman Ships' Auxiliary Machinery BACKED by three quarters of a century of experience in the manufacture of Deck Auxiliaries, the Company has built up a tradition of efficiency and dependability which extends throughout the...
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MAY 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a vessel with dead and wounded men on board had arrived in the Downs and that a doctor was wanted. A light northerly breeze was blowing and the sea...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the 31st of January, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat saw that bad weather was making the conditions at the harbour bar and harbour entrance dangerous, and at 11.25 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
ILB launches on service during the months March, April and May, 1974 Aberdovey, Gwynedd April 12 and 28, May 12.
Abersoch, Gwynedd April 7, 13 and 26, May 7 and 17.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 1, May 12 (2)...
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Launches 107. Lives rescued 38.
September Meeting.
Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a...
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