Facts and Figures In 1985 RNLI lifeboats have so far launched 749 times, saving 305 lives.
In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,613 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,330 lives (an average of over three people...
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Coxswain George Warlord, of Pakefield.
A Coxswain with a long and fine record, Coxswain George M. War- ford, of Pakefield (one of the Stations closed last year), died on 14th March last, at the age of eighty-eight. He...
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Coxswain John Connell of Amble, Northumberland. He joined the lifeboat crew in April 1953, became bowman in February 1962, second coxswain in February 1967 and coxswain in August 1972.
He was awarded the thanks of the RNLI,... - View image in PDF
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 21st of May, 1955, the local fishing fleet was at sea when the weather worsened, and at eight o'clock the No. 1 life-boat J. W. Archer, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with an...
FISHGUARD. — The No. 1 Life-boat Elizabeth Mary was launched at about 9 P.M. on the 24th September, during a moderate gale from the N.N.E., signals of distress having been shown by the smack Lark, of Portinadoc, laden with slates for Cardiff...
About 1.30 A.M. of the 23rd October, the night being stormy and peculiarly dark, the wind at east (dead on shore), the lights of a vessel on the Beacon Rocks, Eoker, to the north, of the entrance to Sunderland Harbour, were observed from the...
Fox. Vellum service certificates have been presented to Crew Members Christopher E. Fox and David Wainwright.
Western Division On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the...
Category: Services
MAY 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast, bound from the Tyne to Poole, with coal, ran ashore in foggy weather about two miles north of Flamborough. The call for a life-boat was...
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