A splendid bonfire, representing the Houses of Parliament, was built by the crew of the Calshot lifeboat for their annual bonfire and firework party which this year raised £1,700.. - View image in PDF
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. . . (below) the Duchess is welcomed aboard the Waveney lifeboat by Coxswain Charles Hatcher. Standing behind the coxswain, arm raised, is Motor Mechanic John Scott. photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Shoreham Motor Mechanic Jack Silverson. who takes care oj the exhibition room in the present lifeboat house, with some of the models and other exhibits on display.. - View image in PDF
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Winchman Ernie Bennett activates the winch which, with a V-shaped bridle of special flexible wire, hauls the lifeboat clear of the water.. - View image in PDF
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NEWS of a great battle has reached the metropolis. The action was not fought on American soil; and, as far as we know, war has not broken out between Denmark and Germany; so that it cannot be of those incensed nations that we speak. The...
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November Meeting.
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the 2nd September a salvage party of six was marooned on the wreck of the Harvest Queen, owing to their boat breaking away and capsizing. Their plight was seen by a...
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A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Cere- mony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter...
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Silver Jubilee postscript . . . from Torbay: On August 5, Torbay lifeboat the 54' Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37), escorted the royal barge bringing HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ashore from MMS... - View image in PDF
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The Thurso, Caithness, life-boat Pent/and (Civil Service No. 31) heading for Scrabster on the north coast of Scotland with the upturned Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B. in tow. The photograph was taken on 18th March, 1969, by a Shackleton... - View image in PDF
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AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...
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