Recruitment drive Peterborough Shoreline club No 8 have asked that it be known that they are still very much alive and kicking, meeting on the third Wednesday of every month. They are appealing both to existing Shoreline members within their...
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ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...
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St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.25 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Molin, anchored in St. Ives Bay, was making distress signals. At 5.50 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...
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Capt Brian Atkinson Aberdeen Hon Secretary. - View image in PDF
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5. Aberdeen's Bon Accord No,1 North Country class lifeboat shares its name with the station's current Severn class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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At 6.10 a.m. on 17th September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small speedboat which had left Ramsgate harbour for Margate at 2.35 had not arrived at 6.33. As the life-boat was about to search for the boat a message...
The last rigid inshore lifeboat in RNLI service was the Boston Whaler A513 Sam and Iris Coles, pictured in action inside Poole Harbour. - View image in PDF
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French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT was present on 2nd November, 1938, at the Odeon Theatre, kindly lent by Mr.
Oscar Deutsch (chairman and managing director of Odeon Theatres, Ltd.), at a special film performance in aid of the Life...
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