ON Empire Day, 24th May last, twenty Life-boatmen took part in the Empire Day Festival and Procession of the Empire organised by the Daily Express in Hyde Park. The procession was led by the massed bands of H.M. Brigade of Guards, and an...
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Holyhead, and Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary at Holyhead that the no. 2 pilot boat, which had gone to the Skerries Rock with fifteen children...
The Mayor of Poole, Councillor Peter Coles, has chosen the lifeboat service as the charity for his year of office, giving it his personal, and very active support. He is seen here with the Mayoress, Mrs Coles, at a buffet dance at Poole Arts... - View image in PDF
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(above and near right} The lifeboat manoeuvres alongside Supenramp as she pounds on the rocks in a Force 7. - View image in PDF
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he Atlantic 85 Chelsea Flower Show en route to the International Festival -f the Sea in July 2005 hoto: David Corben. - View image in PDF
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HOLY ISLAND.—On the 29th April, 1867, j the Grace Darling life-boat went off and assisted safely into harbour two fishing- smacks, which were observed in distress during very stormy weather. Had it not! been for the services of the life-boat...
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Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
DURING 1937 the Institution gave rewards for the rescue from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland of 524 lives. It is the largest number rescued for nine years. Of those lives 439 were rescued by life- boats and 85 by...
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NOVEMBER 6TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.17 in the morning a message came from the Walmer coastguard that a large steamer was aground on the Goodwin Sands. The lifeboat crew were asked to stand by. This they did all day. At 7.12 in the evening the...
H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron.AT the end of 1923, H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who had already shown her personal interest in the Life-boat Service by becoming Pre- sident of the Kensington Branch on...
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