SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
Category: Services
DECEMBER 17TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.25 in the morning a request was received from the naval control for the life-boat to go to the Maplin Sands where a vessel had been driven ashore on the Black tail Spit. A strong southerly...
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...
Category: Medals
Padstow lifeboathouse, at Trevose Head on the north coast of Cornwall, is at the foot of steep cliffs. On Sunday September 18, 1983, a new lift up these cliffs was formally opened by Captain P. K. C. Harris, HM Coastguard regional controller... - View image in PDF
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Tracey Edwards, Yachtswoman of the Year, aboard Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat during the station's lifeboat week. Tracey has since become a vice president of the branch. (Photo Jeanne Hambleton). - View image in PDF
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ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat performed a series of arduous services, going out five times to the rescue of no fewer than ten vessels, and saving forty men, in the course of seven hours.
On the 28th July a strong...
by courtesy of] [Manchester Evening News Hats off to 18-year-old model Stephanie Harrison, one of the models at the R.N.L.I.
fashion show held at Owens Park, Fallowfield, in March, 1968. The hatless coxswains are (left to... - View image in PDF
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Commander F. R. H. Swann, RNVR, Chairman of the Committee of Management, received the CBE from HM the Queen on on March 19. It being London flag day, he bought his flag outside Buckingham Palace.. - View image in PDF
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A cheque for £.100,000, the biggest he had ever had received for the RNLI, was handed to Commander Swann by Mr Roy Bailhache, chairman of the Jersey branch: it will pay for Jersey's new 44' Waveney lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Fig 3: (right) Building starts of the first 47ft steel fast slipway lifeboat prototype. - View image in PDF
The gunwale is laid down on a deck jig and the five watertight bulkheads and transom erected.. - View image in PDF
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