A lifetime of lifesaving Joel Grunnill tells the Lifeboat how he overcame ice, injuries and even bullets during his so-far-78 years of volunteering Skegness born and bred, Joel Grunnill was part of the Lincolnshire town’s lifeboat crew for...
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Snatched from rocks A MAYDAY CALL received from the 17' bermudan sloop Calcutta Princess was reported by Trevose Head Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 1709 on Sunday July 17, 1977. The yacht, a quarter...
Rescued, landed and towed in...
Hayling Island lifeboat crew had their work cut out for them at an incident last year when, what started out as an annual goodwill visit, turned into a full scale clean up operation! On 31...
At 11.30 A.M.
on the 21st February the steam drifter Renown, of Yarmouth, with a crew of nine hands, was making for Penzance Pier, in a fresh breeze and rough sea, when she took the ground about a cable's length from...
SEAHAM.—On the 21st December the barque Excelsior, of Sunderland, was driven ashore in an E.N.E. gale in Bed Acres Bay, near Seaham. The Life-boat Sisters Carter of Harrogate was conveyed to the spot by land on her carriage, and launched...
Launches 17. Lives rescued Nil JUNE 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.20 A.M. i t was reported by telephone that a small fishing boat was in distress to the south of Berwick pier, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
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On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...
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New Brighton New Brighton's new purpose-built lifeboat station was officially opened by the Mayor of Wirral, Councillor Mike Cooke, on 28 April 1990 in beautiful spring weather.
The building replaces a prefabricated... - View image in PDF
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Summary of its Proceedings from 1st January, 1860, to 31st December, 1862.
SINCE the beginning of the year 1860, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has...
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