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Category: Services
DURING the past few months, the Life- boat Service has been represented at three different exhibitions. From December 26th-31st, 1950, there was a scientific exhibition at the Imperial College, South Kensington, organised by Crosby Hall (the...
Category: Articles
Seven rescued THE OIL SUPPLY VESSEL Smit Lloyd47, dragging her anchor and grounded in a severe easterly gale and heavy swell on the west shore of Peterhead Harbour of Refuge, about five cables from the lifeboat slipway, was reported to the...
THE Scottish Council held the first of its meetings for 1928 on 26th March, in Glasgow. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Council, presided, and there were representatives present from Glasgow, Buckie, Perth, Greenock...
Category: Meetings
WHITBURN, DURHAM.—The steam-tug Hook van Holland left Emden on the llth February at midday, having in tow the damaged s.s. Treneglos, of St.
Ives, intending to take her to South Shields, but early on the morning of the 14th...
THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Life- boat Station was situated at the end of Rosslare Point, a spit several miles long...
Category: Services
WHEN Rear-Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, and the other American delegates attended the second International Life-boat Conference, which was held in Paris last June, they visited Life-boat Stations in...
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Wrecked on the Isle of Wight, 8th April, 1937. (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The lift is an unusual fixture of the new life-boat station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eyemouth, and St. Abbs, Berwickshire.— At 10.7 in the morning, on the 24th of April, 1950, the Eyemouth life-boat authorities received a message from a Burnmouth fisherman that the motor fishing vessel Breadwinner, of Burn- mouth, was in...