A mock Viking longship—one of four glass fibre replicas belonging to the Viking Longship Association—ran into trouble in Peel Harbour, on the Isle of Man, during a local carnival on August 2, 1987, when it began leaking and became submerged... - View image in PDF
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The memorial plaque in the Caister, Norfolk, Life-boat shed to the life-boatmen who were drownod when the local boat capsized on 14th Nc.'eniber, 1301, with the loss of nine lives.
Ar.icny ;!!ose who perished were... - View image in PDF
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THE LIFEBOAT MAN a New Character Study by Royal Doulton Govier's of Sidmouth are pleased to offer you this early opportunity of acquiring "The Lifeboat Man" from Royal Doulton's famous Character Study collection and at the...
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1962 £ 240,845 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS.— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Boulmer, Caister, Cullercoats, Hastings, Howth, Kirk- cudbright, Llandudno, Longhope, Lowestoft, Sal- combe, Seaham...
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By SHEILA MARY WICKS (10|), The Heston Junior Mixed School, Heston, Middlesex.
"A GALLANT RESCUE." BY THE COXSWAIN OP A LIFE-BOAT.
IT was a dark, stormy night in the middle of a terrible...
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BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; HORN- SEA, YORKSHIRE; MABLETHORPE, LIN- COLNSHIRE ; MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND ; THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; and RAMSGATE, KENT. — The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these Stations have recently been replaced...
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By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.
The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...
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LOST THEIR DINGHY St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 6.15 p.m. on i8th October, I963,thecoastguard told the acting honorary secretary that two fires and a flashing light had been seen on Ramsey Island. At 6.19 the lifeboat Joseph Soar (Civil...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami was launched in a near gale on Sunday, August 22, to go to the help of American yacht Sonata, taking water four miles south of Cross Sand Lightvessel. Sonata got the leak... - View image in PDF
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Fine weather cumulus forming over the cliffs and sea during the flight up to R.A.F. Chivenor on a hot July day and (right), H.Q. sign at 22 Squadron's site at R.A.F. St. Mawgan.. - View image in PDF
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