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RESCUEE RETURNS WITH THANKS
James Probert says he ‘simply would not be here’ if not for the quick and professional response of his rescuers. The 58-year-old father of four collapsed in a car park...
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THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING LIFEBOATS
26 January–22 April
Poole Museum, Dorset
Calm Before the Storm: The Art of Photographing Lifeboats celebrates the past and present of the RNLI. Glass plate images of...
Category: Articles
It was around this time last year that the Oban lifeboat crew saved the life of an unconscious man who was trapped in icy waters between two fishing vessels in Oban harbour (see winter 2001/02 issue, p.18). The crew's pagers went off...
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Troubleshooter Sir John Harvey Jones talks to lifeboat coxswains Malcolm MacDonald, Frank Smith and Steve Vince aboard Lerwick's new Severn class lifeboat during the making of the video 'Preserving all You Value'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
This photograph was taken by the coxswain, Harold Hayles (see page 499). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hoylake Life-Boat and An Irb Seen Recently When Trials Were Taking Place on the River Dee. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
AUGUST 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.55 A.M. the coastguard reported a boat in difficulties off Black Rocks, Salt Island. She was flashing a torch. A W.N.W.
gale was blowing, with a nasty, choppy sea,...
The mythical lifeboat station on 'Hildasay'. - View image in PDF
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Mrs E M Miller-Barstow OBE MA JP DSTJ, President of the Westonsuper- mare station branch from 1980 to 1996..
Category: Obituaries
The crew approach cautiously, aware that on-board distress flares could explode at any moment. - View image in PDF
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