OCT. 18TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby.
A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat was...
When Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, named a new lifeboat at Ramsgate on Friday 16 July, it was an historic occasion in more ways than one. This was the first time that a lifeboat was named in honour of a...
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BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 26th February the fishing cobles went out line fishing at about 6 A.M., there being then a light N.E. wind. At 10 o'clock the wind shifted to the E. and commenced to blow strongly, accompanied by a very...
Tim portrait on the -cover is of Coxswain Leonard Peddlesden, of Newhaven, Sussex, who retired in January after serving for fifteen years as an officer of the life-boat. He had been coxswain for nearly six years. He won the silver medal for...
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IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...
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Life-Boat O.N. 70-001. At 12.10 a.m.
on yth February, 1966, the crew of the first seventy foot steel life-boat, anchored in Clovelly roads, intercepted a message on the radio from the German motor vessel Ameland stating...
KINGSTOWN.—On the 25th January, at 9.30 A.M., a vessel was observed on the outside of the Kish Bank, about two miles distant from the Kish Lightship. The coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat Princess Royal at once called for volunteers to man...
WBXFOBD AND BOSSLAEE BBANCH. diocese The tm£ and c*stle were LXIH. WEXFOED No. 1.—The Ethel Eveleen, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, 12 oars.
LXIV. Ditto No. 2.—The Civil Service No. 1,34 feet by...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Arranmore, Co. Donegal Baltimore, Co. Cork Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Bembridge, Isle of Wight Blackpool,...
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THE subject set for the eighth Lifeboat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools was " Describe the kind of man that a good Life-boatman should be." The number of schools taking part was 1919, an increase on last year of 427. The...
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