The Countess Mountbatten of Burma addresses the meeting prior to the presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 16 May 1989.. - View image in PDF
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Crew member swims to stranded yachtWells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...
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Dear Editor, Scanning the letters page of the summer 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, my eye was caught by the small photograph of the Selsey lifeboat towing a cabin cruiser. Though the doctored picture featuring fearless towrope-walker Max...
Category: Correspondence
Open fishing boats FLAMBOROUGH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station at 0918 on Thursday January 31, 1980, that the coble Renown was in difficulties one mile east of Rolston and some 13 miles south of the...
When 40 Children from Weston Park Junior Mixed School, Lawrence Weston, Bristol, visited Tenby lifeboat station they left behind a tee shirt, and Jack Thomas, the branch chairman, duly paid this unusual £83.43 cheque into the bank. The... - View image in PDF
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MARCH 21ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 4.15 in the afternoon a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard at Penzance, that a vessel and possibly two, nine miles west of The Lizard, needed help. There was a light...
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Wedding Day Shout
As Lough Swilly Crew Member Francy Burns took the microphone for his wedding speech, his bride-to be, Helen, was surprised to hear the sound of a pager instead of the traditional declarations of love....
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by courtesy of] [Manchester Evening News Hats off to 18-year-old model Stephanie Harrison, one of the models at the R.N.L.I.
fashion show held at Owens Park, Fallowfield, in March, 1968. The hatless coxswains are (left to... - View image in PDF
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On the night of 22 June 1988 the fishing vessel Marigold tan on to rocks at Polkirt beach, 500 yards from Mevagissey Harbour and was badly holed. An overnight operation by a local boatbuilder, the coastguards and fire brigade patched the... - View image in PDF
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