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NEW! The Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines at The Mountbatten Festival of Music, 1997 tecorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. "The Uountbatten Festival of Music 1997" is the atest in a long line of musical triumphs by...
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Boy David
Life-boat 70-002 - Bristol Channel - At 1.35 p.m. on 7th May, 1967, a member of the crew of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie lying at anchor off Ilfracombe saw a red flare at the east end of Ilfracombe bay. There was a moderate westerly...
Wreck of the 'Pomona'
Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.
The American clipper...
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Boy Jermyn
OCTOBER 20TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 on the night of the 19th the coastguard reported that a steamer in the harbour was making signals of distress. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat crew...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th April, 1860. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.,in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committee.
Category: Committee
Associate Membership
The Committee of the Association has decided with regret to discontinue this grade of membership since a subscription of -£ is insufficientto cover the free quarterly issue of THE LIFE-BOAT and to cover administrative costs. Existing...
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Sheringham Lifeboat Crew Member David Williams
SHERINGHAM LIFEBOAT Crew Member David Williams is pictured with his son Robert and daughter Caroline, who helped him in coming to the aid of a drowning man while on holiday in Minorca in September last year. Mr Alan Redhead, of Leeds, was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Old Bob Leach
Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.33 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1952, the life-boat honorary secretary saw a fishing boat about five miles to the south-east burn flares. At 4.36 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched in a slight sea with a...
Manzoni
OC T . 2 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 7.55 P.M. the Deal coastguard reported that two steamers had been in collision near the Fork Buoy. A strong squally N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
Jasper
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — On Sunday morning, the 17th January, the Lifeboat Coven t Garden arrived at Yarmouth Harbour, bringing four of the hands of the schooner Jasper, of Fowey, and the body of one of the crew, who had died from exposure while...