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Hands Up:
Hands up: Keith Cook, an RNLI life governor, was at Aldeburgh lifeboat station last year when he came across this peculiar sight (left). Is it a particularly poignant appeal for funds or simply a case of all hands to the rescue?. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Furguslie
At 8.10 A.M.
on the 16th June the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the south beach. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester were assembled and the boat launched. As quickly as possible she proceeded to...
Ellen
CARDIGAN.—About 2 P.M. on the 1st November it was reported that the smack Ellen, of Milford, which had during the day come up from the westward, and had brought up in the bay outside the bar, had hoisted a flag for resistance, and that she...
Albert's Skydive
Last August a dream came true for disabled pensioner Albert Moss when he parachuted from 13,000ft above the Yorkshire coast - boosting lifeboat coffers by £700 in the process.. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Milgate
At 7 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd November, a message was received from the Coast- guard, stating that a vessel was in dis- tress about four miles to the east of Newhaven. The signal was fired, and within a quarter of an hour the...
A year of exceptional courage
Dungeness lifeboat Crew Member Garry Clark is to receive the RNLI's Silver Medal for his bravery and determination during the rescue of seven people from the yacht Liquid Vortex on 3 January this year.
In a long and...
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Siglinde
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 5.0 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a visitor reported to the police that a barge seemed to be in difficulties off Holland Haven. The police informed the coastguard at Clacton, but as the Clacton...
Motor Life-Boat at Boulogne
IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
Si. ANDREW'S, N.B. —- The Life-boat placed on this station some years since by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION had done good service from time to time, it having saved 22 lives from different ship- wrecks ; but last year it was found...
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