The 'Fishing-Smack Fortunatus Which Sank After Striking The Pier'. - View image in PDF
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The New Life-Boat For Southend In The Builders' Yard. - View image in PDF
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Port St Mary Lifeboat The Gough Ritchie To The Rescue (Above). - View image in PDF
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.20 on the morning of the 9th of April, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian fishing vessel Celtic, which was four miles south of Newhaven, had water in her engine room and needed help....
AUGUST 27TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down, but it was a ship’s balloon and this was picked up by a motor boat.- Rewards, £3 15s.
(See Pennan, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page...
Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6 P.M. on the 6th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a...
Of 1108 launches during the year 251 were to foreign vessels belonging to eighteen different countries and 608 lives were rescued from them. Never has the Lifeboat Service more faithfully carried out the promise which it made when it was...
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Right: Children get into the spirit of the occasion with fancy dress at Lough Swilly's station open day in 2001. - View image in PDF
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The RNLI’s very last Arun class lifeboat on service (right) is finally withdrawn, replaced at Calshot by a former relief Tyne class (left). The first Arun, named Arun, was built in 1971 and had a wooden hull. The last, Duke of Atholl, was... - View image in PDF
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Top photo: The RNLI also bestows awards to other recue organisations or members of the public for acts of bravery Claran Doyla of the Carda Underwater unit was awarded the RNLt's Bronze Medal for a harrowing rescue of three people from a... - View image in PDF
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