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/"" /" t"» f fi f" o Notes of the Quarter Ill Lifeboat Services 113 Volume XLVIII LongServiceAwards 119 Number 481 Yes, I'd do it all again, by Rosemarie Ide 120 ,,. . Skegness Lifeboat Station, 1825 to...
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Shoreline Club No 13 at Rochford
Shoreline club no. 13, at Rochford, gives tremendous, regular help to the local branch. The club's 1984 annual pram race, in which 14 teams called at eight pubs to drink half a pint at each, raised £200 for Rochford branch. The race... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Five Gallantry Medal Awardees
* The five Gallantry Medal awardees pose proudly for t. - View image in PDF
cameras. l-R: Shaun Sonley, Tony Salter, Aileen Jones. - View image in PDF
Ian Sanderson and Gary Barlow. - View image in PDF
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Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a man had fallen down a cliff at South Stack. There was a northerly breeze with a choppy sea. Ten minutes later the life...
Brereton, of Liverpool
On the night of the 18th January the watchman reported flares and rockets in the neighbourhood of the Splough Rock, and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was launched. As usual, Mr. W. J. B.
Moncas, the branch...
Lifeboat Services
ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Obituaries
Sir Peter Compston With deep regret we report the recent death of former RNLI Deputy Chairman, Vice Admiral Sir Peter Compston KCB.
Sir Peter had a long and distinguished career in the Royal Navy, including numerous...
Category: Obituaries
Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke
UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
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Britannic
At about 2 P.M. on the 31st October the Coxswain and some of the crew of the Life-boat Samuel Lewis, when fishing near Chapel, observed a barge flying signals of distress.
The men promptly landed and tele- phoned for a...