Peterhead lifeboat creui at work Back Row: Jim Reid, Retired; James Geary, Mechanical Engineer; Jimmy Anderson. Fish Merchant; Andy Brown, Electrician; Bob Lee, RNLI Mechanic and Billy Proctor, Base Operator. Front Row: Frazer Dunbar. RAF;... - View image in PDF
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Launches 30. Lives rescued 19.
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the...
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By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
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FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...
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SIR Charles Baring, Bt, Colonel F. F.
B. St. George, C.V.O., and Mr. Norman E. Wales have joined the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Sir Charles Baring is the son of Sir Godfrey Baring who...
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COASTGUARD, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH Flamborough, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs. A helicopter had landed on...
Two boys from We/ling/on School, Andy Baker and Mark Samuel, both aged 14 ears, cycled from Wellington to Torquay and back to raise money for the RNLI. The round trip was about 100 miles and the bovs raised £182 through... - View image in PDF
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Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, presenting Captain J. D.
Jeavons, a member of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat, with the bronze medal for his part in the Nofsiporos episode on 2nd December, 1966 (see THE LIFE-BOAT for... - View image in PDF
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XVI.—BROADSTAIRS.
The Samuel Morrison. Collins, 36 feet long, 9 feet 2 inches beam, 12 oars.
THE Broadstairs Life-boat of the Institution is one of the largest class, and well adapted for ser- vice as a...
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Warminster mayor Ann Coventry launching the sponsored boat push, along with club members.. - View image in PDF
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