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Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

THE COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and & PENSION, have been awarded to :— . ' FREDERICK BARNES, 19J years coxswain and 13 years second coxswain, and 2J years...

Lifeboat tows yacht to safety of Dunkirk The Dover coxswain /assistant mechanic Anthony Hawkins and crew members David Pascall and Rodney Goldsack have been a warded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following an eight-hour...

For eleven days the RNLI stand, on a splendid site, was thronged with old and new friendsAFTER THE TREMENDOUS SUCCESS of the RNLI stand at last year's Boat Show, when there were two lifeboats and two inshore lifeboats on display and the...

RAMSGATE | 13 NOVEMBER
It was an early Sunday morning wake-up call for Ramsgate’s lifeboat crew, when their pagers went off just before 8am. A small yacht had collided with a container ship 24 miles east of Ramsgate, and was...

Hastings, Sussex.—At 8.27 on the morning of the 27th of May, 1956, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned to say a fishing boat with three men on board was drifting out to sea off St. Leonards.

At 8.50 the life-boat M.T.C. was...

Coxswain John Matthews, of Moelfre, Anglesey, has won the Institution's silver medal. On a very dark night, in a very rough sea, he took the lifeboat to the rescue of four airmen whose dinghy had been carried close to the rocks. It was a...

On the morning of the 14th October the coxswain was informed by the Chief Officer of Coastguard that a message had been received by telephone from Thornham, stating that the services of the Lifeboat were required by a vessel in distress off...

Left) Rigging loft, chargehand Ron Parris foreground.. - View image in PDF