Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.12 on the morning of the 1st of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a vessel was ashore in St. Loy Bay. At 6.34 the life-boat W and S was launched in a slight sea, with a gentle...
In 1944 life-boats rescued 714 lives and helped to save 50 boats, ships and aeroplanes from destruction. There were 455 launches of life-boats to the rescue and 178, or well over a third, were to aeroplanes..
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The Institution has received £5 4s. from two lemons. One was raffled in Birmingham. The other was handed round at a dance in Cheam, to be smelt at a penny a head, and was then auctioned..
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Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...
St. Helier, Jersey.—About nine o'clock on the evening of the 28th of Septem- ber, 1954, it was reported that the harbour motor boat Duchess of Normandy, which had ten people on board, including a party of workmen, was over- due on a...
The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes on the Coast North of the River Douro Portugal. - View image in PDF
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A Sunday exercise during the passage involves the Mersey taking Salcombe's Tyne class. The Baltic Exchange II. in tow. - View image in PDF
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The assembled lifeboats steam in line astern up the Oslofjord, framed by the rigging of Christian Radich carrying conference delegates.. - View image in PDF
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Douglas lifeboat's inflatable X boat waits at the foot of the cliff for the second youth to be lowered. - View image in PDF
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Pictured at bottom: The Enniskillen crew and the Atlantic 21 lifeboat Bienwatch on the Enniskillen inland waterways Photo: Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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