Langdon Battery Dover's Mrcc Converted From An Old World War I Gun Emplacement. - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 18th October, 1928.
The HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Appointed Lieut.-Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., a District Inspector of Lifeboats.
Decided that, for...
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Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 9.40 on the night of the 7th of July, 1955, a message was received from the pilots at Passage that a boat had broken down off Brownstown Head. At 9.55 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out, with the...
SOUTHPORT, LANCASHIRE.—The Life- boat on this station was rapidly becoming unfit for further service, and it has there- fore been replaced by a new 10-oared boat, 34 feet long, and 8J feet wide. The legacy of 5001. bequeathed to the...
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Left to right: Tom Burgess, Matt Boon, Dave Hooper, Cameron Patton, Natalie Silverthorn, John Bull. - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the...
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15th June. A local fishing boat was long overdue but she was picked up by another fishing boat.—Rewards, £6 13s..
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.5 P.M.
on the 29th April, 1938, a message was received from the pierhead that a small open fishing boat was in distress off South Shoebury Buoy. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
A STERN TEST Inshore lifeboats are equipped with powerful engines to reach casualties quickly, but many rescues call for some strong handiwork too. Rory Stamp reports The skipper knew it wouldn’t be easy to get his yacht Sub Woofer back into...
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Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 8.52 on the evening of the 30th of August, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message that a fishing boat was making distress signals off the Barmouth Fairway buoy. At 9.20 the life-boat...