BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 19TH- 2 1 ST. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 6.45 in the morning the motor life-boat at Newcastle, Co. Down, L. P. and St.
Helen, was launched in a blinding snow-storm to the help of the...
Jim Davidson and Cetrek MD Geoff Warde hold the cheque which funded the D class Cetrek - in which they are standing - at the London Boat Show. With them are Ian Ventham (nearest camera) the RNLI's head of fundraising and two members of... - View image in PDF
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Chairman of the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat Station THERE has been a life-boat station at Berwick-on-Tweed for 118 years, and for the last thirty-four of those years the coxswain has been a Lough. A Lough is coxswain today, four of the...
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PLYMOUTH and YEALM RIVER.—On the night of the 28th of January the Plymouth Life-boat Clemency and the Yealm River Life-boat Bowman went out in reply to signals of distress shown by the barque Wellington, of Windsor, N.S. The wind was blowing...
(Bottom) Her owner, a crewman from the towing vessel and a helicopter winchman put aboard for the attempt are snatched to safety by the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulty a mile east of Thorpe- ness. A moderate south-westerly wind was blowing...
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. The French life-boat Jean Charcot, now in the service of the Institution, was on passage from Padstow to Milford Haven, but as a strong westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, the life-boat was unable...