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(Above) Alan Jones, Coxswain of the Mumbles Lifeboat Draws the Winning Ticket for the Wales and West Mercia Region Watched By David Steel, Director of Volvo
(above) Alan Jones, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat draws the winning ticket for the Wales and West Mercia Region watched by David Steel, director of Volvo agents FRF Motors.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat and the Survey Ship H.M.S. Scott
TOW FOR BOAT FROM SURVEY SHIP Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning red flares three-quarters of a mile off...
The Brighton IRB Being Launched In a Choppy Sea
The Brighton IRB being launched in a choppy sea. During the first six months of this year IRBs were launched 225 times compared with 112 for the same period last year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Into the Next Trough She Is Almost Vertical (Top Inset).
The sea is so sleep that the bow continues to rise and as she begins to fall back into the next trough she is almost vertical (top inset).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1935.
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61 7 0 BB _B _ _ __ _ MHB Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspec- tion of Life-boats and Life-boat...
Category: Accounts
HM Torpedo Boat Destroyers The Cherwell and Ettrick
At about 7.45 P.M. on the 20th -May two of H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyers, the Oherwell and Ettrick, when near the Barber Sand steaming northward, ran aground. The weather was moderate, but the ships being unable to get clear fired signals for...
(Far Right! a Crew Member from the Yacht Is Helped
(far right! A crew member from the yacht is helped ashore from the lifeboat Photos. The Whitehaven News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue In a Gale Near the Harbour Bar
ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
Ex-Coxswain...
Category: Services
Ipswich (The Town Of) Life-Boat Fund
! E. GRIMWADE, Esq., Mayor, K.OBEHT RANSOMS, Esq.
GECKO R JossEfcrs, Esq Honorary Secretary—Mr- W. BATEMAN Bvso.
Strsdbroke, Right Hon. (Lord Lieut, of the County) .
Rendlesham,Right...
Category: Donations
Centenary of the Tower of Refuge, Douglas, Isle of Man
ON llth May the centenary was cele- brated at Douglas, Isle of Man, of the Tower of Refuge on St. Mary's Rock, in the middle of the Bay. This tower was built by Sir William Hillary, the founder of the Institution, and the first stone was...
Category: Articles