. . . (below) the Duchess is welcomed aboard the Waveney lifeboat by Coxswain Charles Hatcher. Standing behind the coxswain, arm raised, is Motor Mechanic John Scott. photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Winchman Ernie Bennett activates the winch which, with a V-shaped bridle of special flexible wire, hauls the lifeboat clear of the water.. - View image in PDF
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Just because a lifeboat has not reached her new home and been officially put on station does not stop her being a lifeboat, as these two photographs show.
The Severn class allocated to Harwich on the east coast was taking... - View image in PDF
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Silver Jubilee postscript . . . from Torbay: On August 5, Torbay lifeboat the 54' Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37), escorted the royal barge bringing HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ashore from MMS... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 18- 20TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked by...
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.45 P-m- on 29th November, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there were three keel boats still at sea in conditions that were exceptionally bad and getting worse. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 11.18 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1960, the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched to stand by three local motor fishing vessels, which were entering harbour in very bad weather. There was...
These photographs of the relief Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser were taken in Christchurch Bay while filming for the RNLI's latest film was in progress. All photos courtesy Malory Maltby. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 28TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local Whitby motor fishing coble, Jane and Ann, with a crew of four, was sheltering in Robin Hood’s Bay, Wyke, six miles south of...
DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, Sunday January 26, 1986: a woman had suffered a suspected heart attack aboard the Belfast to Liverpool ferry, St Colum I. At 0313 Douglas lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson class, R. A. Colby Cubbin No 1, launched with the...