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the west, the sea was slight and visibility was excellent but the tide, which had been flooding for 3'/2 hours, was still rising.
The water had already risen above the girls' chests and was lapping around their...
Category: Services
The First Ever Child of Two Ex-Lifeboat Crew Members:
The first ever child of two ex-lifeboat crew members: Andrew James Louis Mitchell with his parents, David and Marjorie, on the day of his christening which was held, naturally enough, aboard Aberdeen's 54ft Arun class lifeboat BP Forties... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Facts.
The life-boat service has never, in its whole history, had so busy and so dangerous a time as since the outbreak of war.
The life-boat service has never been more generously supported by the people of Great Britain than...
Category: Articles
Progress of the New Fleet
Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.
Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...
Category: Articles
A Naval Motor Gun Boat
MARCH 4TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
A naval motor gunboat had been reported in need of help, and the life-boat made two searches in bad weather, with enemy aeroplanes about, but the gunboat got in...
Above: 'A Life-Boat Rescue
Above: 'A Life-boat Rescue with the Help of the Life-Saving Net' by Charles Pears RQI, published in 1924.
Category: Drawings
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
Howth, Co. Dublin.—During the evening of the 23rd May, 1938, a converted ship's life-boat put off from Baldoyle, with a party of three men, four boys and two girls on board. Her sail was blown away, she got into difficulties, and the...
A British Beaufighter Aeroplane (1)
J ANUARY 9 T H. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A British Beaufighter aeroplane had been reported flying low and was thought to have hit the water, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £18 6s..
A Small Motor Fishing Boat
AUGUST 10TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. A small motor fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but she was found coming in under her own power.- Rewards, £3 16s..
a Summer Afternoon Strawberry Tea at the Home of Mrs Doreen Beste Honorary Treasurer of Coventry Ladies' Guild Raised £100
A summer afternoon strawberry tea at the home of Mrs Doreen Beste, honorary treasurer of Coventry ladies' guild, raised £100.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs