APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.
ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...
(Left, below) To commemorate a favourite customer, Albert Howes, the Talbot Hotel at Ripley, Surrey, has raised £3,000 to buy a radar for a lifeboat. The target was finally reached on Easter Saturday when a publicity D class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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A month later, on the night of 22nd December, the Gorleston Motor Life-boat was launched with a full blowing from the N.E. and a gale very got up very o'clock. The ketch Henrietta, of Goole, was lying in the Yarmouth Roads with two...
Mr. James Hall, M.B., B.S., F.R C.S., who went out four times in the Walmer life-boat in forty hours to the help of sick seamen. In the first six months of the war, he went out to sick seamen more than eighty times, eight of them in the life... - View image in PDF
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Islay: (above) The 50ft Thames class lifeboat Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit arriving on station, (left) More than 200 guests flanked the dais to which the Islay Pipers had led the branch chairman, Alistair Macrae, and his... - View image in PDF
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ON the 18th September a very successful procession took place at Ashington, and as a result of it and of a ball which followed, a sum of over £174 was raised for the Institution. Ashington is a min- ing village, and the Day was...
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The remains of the Watson cabin motor life-boats from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight and Selsey, Sussex. Nothing is left forward but the keels, deadwoods and iron floor-straps. On the left can be seen the forward steel bulkhead of the engine-room... - View image in PDF
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THE 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 290 Life-boat Stations...
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The Tyne class lifeboat Ethel Anne Measures stationed at The Mumbles was at sea for five hours on 28 January 1994 when she stood by the 560ft Indian-registered freighter Vishva Parag whose cargo had shifted causing her to list heavily. She... - View image in PDF
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Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a yacht needed help two miles south-east of Beaumaris. At 12.30 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched. The sea...