Coxswain Bert Baker, of Bembridge, hands over to his successor, Geoffrey Wade, the youngest coxswain in the Service. - View image in PDF
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Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 2.48 p.m. on 8th April, 1967, information was received that a member of the crew of the commercial radio vessel Comet was seriously injured and required medicalassistance. The life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary...
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.
—About 4.30 in the afternoon, on the 6th of September, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port Erin life-boat station that the fishing re- search motor vessel William...
The Duchess of Kent opened the new lifeboat station at Whitby on 7 September. She also named the station’s latest D class inshore lifeboat OEM Stone III. Photo: RNLI/Tony Roddam. - View image in PDF
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ABILITY to aid the shipwrecked is a fairly accurate standard by which to measure a country's civilization. In the South Sea Islands, or Somali Laud, the un- fortunate castaway may struggle through the breakers, only to be clubbed on...
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On the 19th March, the Ramsgate Steamer and Life-boat, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, saved the crew of 8 men from the brig Defender, of Sunderland, which was wrecked on the N.W. spit of the Goodwin Sands during a...
FEBRUARY 19TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 4.47 in the afternoon the resident naval officer telephoned through the coastguard that landing craft belonging to the United States Amphibious Force were ashore on Paignton beach, between...
Bronze medallists 1974 in order of presentation, starting on the left with Assistant Mechanic Peter Thomas (Dungeness).. - View image in PDF
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THROUGH the generous gift of Lady John Joicey-Cecil the Royal National Life-boat Institution has lately come into the possession of a very precious relic connected with our Island story, and one singularly appropriate to the humane and...
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FEBRUARY 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 5.30 in the afternoon the coxswain received information from the coastguard that a fishing boat was flying a signal and appeared in need of help. A light north-by-west wind was...