TUB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 274 Life-boat Stations...
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Holyhead, and Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary at Holyhead that the no. 2 pilot boat, which had gone to the Skerries Rock with fifteen children...
The Michael and Lily Davis entering Ramsgate harbour with Blu-Blud in tow. The rescued crew can be seen amidships.. - View image in PDF
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Two life - boat stations celebrated their centenaries in 1938: Dover, Kent, and Wexford and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. In each case a vellum was presented by the Institu- tion, signed by the H.R.H. Duke of Kent, K.G., as President,...
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ONLY a broken rudder, only a ruin'd sail— Only a shatter'd topmast, only a sea-bird's wail.
Here is the good ship's pinnace—all of her that is left— There are the yards and rigging—a tangled woof and...
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Survivors Of The Guyana Flood. - View image in PDF
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During a gale of wind on the 3rd May, the smack Vale of Gonway, of Port Dinorwic, was seen in a disabled state at some distance from the land, off the south end of the Isle of Whithorn, in Wigtonshire. The Life-boat Charley Peek "was...
TWO YACHTS ESCORTED OVER BAR Salcombe, Devon. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 3rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was drifting in Salcombe estuary with her sails torn.
Ten...
COMMANDER SIR REGINALD LEEDS, Bt, R.N., and Mr. H. A. W. Oughton, O.B.E., have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Sir Reginald Leeds served in both the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force,...
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MAJOR ARTHUR THOMAS FISHER founded the Salisbury Branch of the Institution in 1910, has been its Honorary Secretary ever since, and is still its Honorary Secretary at the great age of eighty.
Born on May Day in 1843, he is...
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