Front cover Shoreham lifeboatman Ian Cosham brings a small child to dry land during the terrible floods in Uckfield. For the full story see pages 14 & 16.
Photo © Steve Edwards, Shoreham lifeboat launcher.
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Coxswain John William Bushell, of Blyth, who died on 24th September, at the age of 61, was for nearly twenty- four years the coxswain of the Blyth life-boat, and before that had been its second coxswain for two years. He won, by his...
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As part of a Rotaract Club of Bristol fundraising day last July on Broadmead shopping precinct podium, Geoff Davis attempted to beat the world football juggling record; he achieved 1,332 flicks—not a record-beating score but, nevertheless,... - View image in PDF
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On the 12th December, at 12.45 P.M., the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed by some boatmen that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands, apparently wreck, with only one mast standing.
The crew were assembled, and...
Holy Island, Northumberland. — A t 10.40 A.M. on the 7th January the second coxswain reported that the local motor fishing coble Reliance was at sea. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing. The sea was heavy and breaking right across the bar. The...
Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF
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Peel's boathouse and slipway - tucked into the crook of the harbour between the breakwater and St Patrick's Isle in the main photo - were rebuilt in 1992 to house the station's carriage-launched Mersey. Because of the picturesque... - View image in PDF
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Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.5 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a light north-north-easterly wind and a slight sea to the Harry R. Jones of Wilmington, to whose help she had gone the day...
It's late, it's dark and it's raining, but the Oakley is ashore and The Princess Royal is on her carriage for the first time. So all we have to do now is launch her again and then retrieve her before we go home to bed…. - View image in PDF
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Steve Wills, Beach Safety Manager, comments: Only a trained eye can see a rip current (experienced surfers actually use them to get out past waves) and normally only from high up, such as a cliff top. As we mentioned in the last issue, it is... - View image in PDF
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