Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—At 8.16 on the morning of 12th of June, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard rang up the Great Yar- mouth and Gorleston life-boat station to say that a shrimp boat had broken down off the harbour...
WHEN the character of the services performed by the life-boats, and the dangers and diffi- culties which they have to encounter, are taken into consideration, it is rather matter for astonishment that they do not frequently fail in effecting...
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Injured man A YACHT AGROUND in Worbarrow Bay was reported to the deputy launching authority of Weymouth lifeboat station at 0006 on Sunday September 24, 1978, and at 0030 the 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell, with Coxswain Alfred Pavey in...
In the February blizzards when East Anglia roads were blocked by huge snowdrifts, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Khami launched to take three patients, one a girl of 14, up the River Yare to Norwich for urgent... - View image in PDF
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BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE " "A Doctor's Proven New Home Cure For Arthritis" More than a million people in the United Kingdom have 'their lives impaired by ; arthritis. Osteopath, Giraud Campbell, has advised hundreds of...
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Gregory Conneely, chairman of Galway and Aran Fishermen's Co-Operative Society, presents a cheque for £1,500, the result of a proportion of its fish auction being made over to the RNLI. (1. to r.) Noel Mickey, chairman of Galway... - View image in PDF
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Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
he Chief Inspector Of Life-Boats Lieut-Commander W L G Dutton RD RNR (Centre) Talking Boats In April With Rear Admiral R P Bullard 5Th US Coast Guard. - View image in PDF
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Life-boats:- EXPENDITURE. £ ,. d. s ». d.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account — Ballycotton, Berwiek-on-Tweed, BridJington, Campbeltown, Clacton, Clogher Head, Cloughey, Dover,...
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Aberdovey's lifeboat named Aberdovey's Atlantic 75 lifeboat was officially named on Saturday, 16 October at the lifeboat station. The new lifeboat has been generously funded by an appeal to the people of Sandwell in the West Midlands... - View image in PDF
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