Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.
He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he...
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GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
(N The Lifeboat for November, 1925, two cases were mentioned of Life-boats going out owing to lights on land being mis- taken for lights at sea. In one case the Selsey Life-boat cruised about for three hours and could find no vessel, the...
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THE YEAR OF 1891 was one well remembered for the terrible storms that caused many lives to be lost in the Channel. The Romney Marsh coast was no exception. On March 9, 1891, in a severe gale the Coastguard, with local folk, were called to a...
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SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...
Category: Services
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
danger they put out. They did not reach and rescue the boys until they were two miles out and their boat half full of water. - Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 2.30 in the afternoon of...
Category: Services
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At six o'clock in the evening, on the 16th of Sep- tember, 1950, a report was received that a yacht was dragging her moorings on to rocks at Restronguet. At 6.30 the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare...
Guess how much is in the bottle! For weeks customers at the Queen Adelaide puh. Putney Bridge Road, London, put their spare cash a large whisky bottle. On the evening of the 'smash' they were asked to hazard a guess as to how much it... - View image in PDF
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Some brave RNLI volunteers face 10m waves and force 9 gales; others find themselves at the mercy of 30 excitable 5-year-olds. So how do we help save lives from the relative safety of the...
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