4 May this year marked the 200th anniversary of Sunderland lifeboat station, the first RNLI station in England to reach this landmark. To mark this occasion, a dinner and disco was held at The Stadium of Light, home of Sunderland Football... - View image in PDF
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1956: below) HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, at Walmer, presents the station's centenary vellum to Sir Gerald Wollaston, branch chairman. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Keystone Press. - View image in PDF
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John Hartland, a helmsman of the D class inshore lifeboat at Withernsea, joined the lifeboat crew in 1987.
In 1991 he was awarded a Bronze medal in recognition of his high standard of seamanship and great courage, when on... - View image in PDF
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As London Life-boat Day went ahead on 18th March, 1969, the search for the missing Longhope life-boat was announced on newspaper placards all over London.. - View image in PDF
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Members of Cromer No 2 Life-Boat Crew Inspect A Marine Diesel Engine During Visit To The Peterborough Headquarters of the Perkins Engine Group. - View image in PDF
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(Above) Leaving Jersey, The Queen Mother is cheered on her way by the lifeboat crew . . . - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Jersey Evening Post.. - View image in PDF
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(Right) Fifty minutes of sponsored silence for the five to eleven-year-olds at Grendon Road Junior School, Birmingham, raised £252.08 for the lifeboat service.. - View image in PDF
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The Brede's self-righting capability is provided by her watertight wheelhouse and the GRP-covered polyurethane buoyancy block mounted on her stern.. - View image in PDF
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Cromer lifeboat museum: Don Harvev (I.), the honorary curator, and Jim Smith, station honorary secretary, with some of the piclures of Coxswain Henry Blogg.. - View image in PDF
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Arranmore’s lifeboat really did face ‘all weathers’, like this Severn class, and the inflatable Y boat stored on top proved invaluable once the storm began to ease. - View image in PDF
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