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The Five Gallantry Medal Awardees
* The five Gallantry Medal awardees pose proudly for t. - View image in PDF
cameras. l-R: Shaun Sonley, Tony Salter, Aileen Jones. - View image in PDF
Ian Sanderson and Gary Barlow. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney Lifeboat 44-001 on Temporary Duty at Gorleston Returning from Service to the Danish Vessel Baltic Which Had Devel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney lifeboat 44-001 on temporary duty at Gorleston returning from service to the Danish vessel Baltic, which had developed a heavy list, on April 8. Seven seamen, picked up by the tug Vanguard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Flimston
MARCH 9TH - 29TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground. She was the S.S. Flimston, of over 4,500 tons, laden with steel and with a crew of 38. She...
Lizzie R Wilce & Mary Barrow
At about 9.15 P.M. on the 7th January, during a heavy N.W. gale, a vessel was seen running for the harbour, but on nearing the entrance she missed stays and was driven on to Porthminster Beach, first striking heavily on Pednolver...
Sea Lion
The Grimsby trawler Sea Lion, carrying a crew of nine, ran ashore at Dimlington early on the morning of the 2nd April. A gentle N.W. breeze was blowing, but there was a heavy swell on the beach. The pulling and sailing life-boat Docea...
Sea Adventure
ADVENTURE AT SEA Dungeness, Kent. At 2.50 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat had broken down and was lying at anchor half a mile off Littlestone. Her crew were waving for help while they baled her...
Ten Years After
The Institution has now completed the full history of the services of life-boats during the war of 1939-45. This has been prepared for purposes of his- torical record and is not for general distribution. The story of the Life-boat Service in...
Category: Services
New Ways of Raising Money
FOR some years yacht clubs and golf clubs have been holding competitions, for which all the entry money has been donated to the Institution. The prizes for yacht races have been pennants, and for golf competitions spoons. The Institution is...
Category: Donations
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Boys on a Perch ON HEARING from the Coastguard that two boys were cut off by the tide and were clinging to the perch marking the sewer outfall between Rhyl and Prestatyn (Flintshire), the Rhyl honorary secretary immediately assembled his...
LIFESAVING IN FRANCE
The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer 1973 NEWS HAS COME from France of the launching by the Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer of a new 15.5 m 'all seasons' lifeboat, Pierre Loti; a boat which cost over £100,000 to build...
Category: Articles