Contents 3 Lifeboat Services 4 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 9 Volume XLIV XT 1 Central Appeals Committee 16 Number 452 Naming Ceremony: Augustine Courtauld, Poole 16 Operation Lifeboat 17 Family Profile by Joan Davies...
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ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
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Lifeboat launches on service during the months June, July and August, 1974 Aith, Shetland August 12 and 16.
Amble, Northumberland July 16, 29 and August 30.
Angle, Dyfed June 2, 23, July 2, 13, August 4, 6...
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On the 3rd August a S.S.W. gale was blowing, ac- companied by a heavy ground sea, and about 11.20 a telephone message was received stating that a fishing boat was outside, and unable to make the harbour. A look-out was kept, and when, some...
THURSDAY, 5th Oct 1871 THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair. j Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous j Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees. I Also the Report of...
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IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
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Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Jan. 10.—Voted the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed, and 11.10s. each to five men, one of whom was the Coxswain of the Poole Life-boat, for rescuing at great personal risk .one of two men whose boat was capsized on...
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Mum, wife, broadcaster and self-styled nosey parker Caroline Quentin explains how her new series brought her up close and personal with lifeboating
‘Oh do shut up darlings!’ calls Caroline...
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