Ice cream and face paints. Barbecues and bunting. There’s something very traditional about a lifeboat station open day, but there's also a definite 21st-century edge
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Their stint done: a nine-year-old and his dog who, on June 9, with 274 other pupils of St Peter's Church of England Junior School, Harborne, Birmingham, helped to raise £1,200 for the RNLI on a sponsored walk round Harborne Cricket... - View image in PDF
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The naming of Mabel E. Holland, 1957: John Oilier, Fred Richardson, Tom Richard 'Sen' Tart, James Tart, Robert Tart, Jack 'Son' Oilier, Ernie Cawdron (RNLI District Engineer), John Thomas (Peter Thomas' father), George... - View image in PDF
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On March 20 Aith, the RNLVsmost northerly station branch, held its annual Lifeboat Memorial Service, instigated by the Rev.
Magnus Cheyne following the loss of Longhope Lifeboat. (I. to r.) Kenneth Henry, coxswain Aith... - View image in PDF
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For the service to Juniper on February 19, 1967, the silver medal was awarded to John Robert Nicolson, coxswain of Aith lifeboat from 1965 to 1971. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dennis Coutts. - View image in PDF
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SOUTHEND (ESSEX).—During a heavy gale from the S.W. and a rough sea, on the 14th October, the Boys of England Life-boat rescued the crews, consisting of four men in all, from the distressed barges Butcher and Maria, of...
October 20th, at 5 P.M.
The schooner Fantee, of Hamburg, bound from that port to Shields, was wrecked on the Tay Bank, 8 miles to leeward of St.
Andrew's. It was blowing a gale from the S.E. with, as...
Fitting out of the Institution's second mobile training unit caravan was undertaken by Peter Fulton (centre), honorary training consultant to the RNLI; while work progressed, the caravan was parked outside his home. Helping with the... - View image in PDF
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Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At five o'clock on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the Walton Bay signal station rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds lightvessel had parted one of her cables and needed help. Seven...
There are 199 steps up Church Stairs in Whitby and Mrs Eileen Whittingham (above) climbed them all last May. Her effort was considerably more than it sounds because she carried it out on artificial limbs, her legs having been amputated... - View image in PDF
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