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Willie Parr

Date: Spring 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 444

WILLIE PARR Lifeboatman Willie Parr* sailed into history when a brewery decided to immortalise him.

*The story of Willie Parr appeared in the Manchester edition of the Daily Mirror on December 13,...

Category: Articles

Coxswain/Mechanic David Chant of St.Davids

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Coxswain/Mechanic David Chant of St Davids became a shore helper and assistant winch man in 1962 before joining the crew in 1984. He was appointed coxswain/mechanic in 1988.

David was awarded a bronze medal this year in... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

Bare factsSwanage's relief Rother class Horace Clarkson was called out on 7 May 1990 when a swimmer was reported to have entered the water from a nearby naturist beach and had not been seen for some 40 minutes.

As the...

Avalon II

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.

Her...

They Did It

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

They did it. They, (I to r) Steve Huntley, Mike Ogwo, Paul Savage, Tony Jeffery, Gary Brooks, Peter Cowup and Mick Newman, ran in relays the 80 miles between Margate lifeboat station and Islington fire station. The time taken by these seven... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Scarborough August 1 1987:

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Drilling Rig

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

BARRY DOCK, August 8, 1987: both Barry Dock's Arun and Penarth's 16ft inflatable were called out when this drilling rig, in use for the proposed barrage at Cardiff, broke through the crust of the sea bed and listed to 40 degrees. Two...

Atlantic College -- West Division

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Situated in the medieval St. Donat's Castle, overlooking the treacherous coast between Penarth and Porthcawl, Atlantic College is a most unusual, but effective set-up - it is the only student-run RNLI station in the Britain. Rear Admiral... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Lifting Barge Eileen Dubv E.

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

Escort for barge with dangerous list Holyhead's relief Tyne class Voluntary Worker was called on to stand by when the cargo aboard the 40m lifting barge Eileen Dubv E shifted in a Force 6 WNW wind and moderate to rough seas some seven...

Pride

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Nov. 17TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At 11.30 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a fishing boat could be seen towing two open boats and was possibly making for the harbour. A strong sea was Breaking outside the...