THE first number of THE LIFE-BOAT appeared in March, 1852. The first editorial began: 'If there be one subject more than another that might be expected to com- mand the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great...
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FEBRUARY 20TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6.57 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been mined one and a quarter miles S.E. of Mumbles Head. The motor life-boat Edward Prince of Wales was launched at 7.15...
Ax 9.14 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Torbay, Devon, life-boat station, Mr. F. W. H. Park, was informed by the coastguard at Berry Head that the Dutch tug Cycloop, which was shelter- ing in Torbay...
Category: Services
Ken Speakman, former honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station for over 20 years..
Category: Obituaries
Marske Fisherman's Choir, founded simply to give pleasure to others, has made a second LP record in aid of the lifeboat service. The record, from the profits of which it is hoped to fund an inshore lifeboat, is available from A. M. Lloyd... - View image in PDF
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Bryan Gerrard, who served the RNLI first as a boat mechanic then as fleet staff coxswain/mechanic. Mr Gerrard worked for the Institution for 27 years..
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The pull of the lifeboat Hannah Chittock tells how she came to join the RnLi ‘family’ When my husband Jon was a child, he and his friends would peer through the window of the old RnLi station in Lymington for a glimpse of the lifeboat and,...
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Adam (32) works in a boat chandlers. He finished his probationary period and became a full crew member in March 2005. - View image in PDF
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THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat at Hoylake, Cheshire, took place on 9th June. This boat has been provided out of the Oldham Life- boat Fund, which was started just over fifty years ago, and towards which by special appeals,...
Category: Inaugurations