Former coxswain of Walton-on-the-Naze lifeboat, Mr Jonas Oxley, who has helped to save hundreds of lives at sea, is putting brush to canvas to record the work of the lifeboatmen. Early this year he completed a painting of Walton's first... - View image in PDF
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Fifty-six rafts took part in the 1975 Wadebridge and Padstow Round Table raft race. About £500 was raised in sponsorship, the moneys being divided between Wadebridge and Padstow branches. photograph by courtesy of W. A. Cogan..
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Hearing, on Sunday, July 25, that MFV Mary Sue of Dublin, with five people on board, had engine failure one mile south of Puffin Island and needed help, Valentia's 52' Barnett lifeboat, Rowland Watts, slipped her moorings at 1820 and... - View image in PDF
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Mark Coleman (left) of E. P. Barrus presents RNLI Director Brian Miles with one of three detailed commemorative replica model of Lawnflite, the D class inshore lifeboat donated by Barrus to the RNLI during the London Boat Show 1996.
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Members of 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., at work on the track at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which leads to the life-boat station and (below) the finished track which took the squadron from 1st to 13th July, 1963, to... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Setting Out From Leicester On Her 2000-Mile Road Tour. - View image in PDF
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ABOUT 10 P.M. on the 23rd December the Coast-guard reported a vessel in distress off Saltfleet, near Doona Nook, in Lincolnshire. The Life-boat crew were assembled and the Boat taken down to the beach, but, as nothing could be seen of the...
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A Service at Skegness.
SHORTLY before eleven on the morning of 19th August, 1935, the motor plea- sure cruiser, Elizabeth Allen, of Skegness, set out for a trip with over a hundred passengers on board. The weather was...
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Jilly Cooper met Hastings own lifeboat, Fairlight, and some of her people: (I. to r.) Christine Martin, Peter Thorpe, Mary Shoesmith, Bob Shoesmith, Colin Green, Joe Martin (coxswain), Doug White (second coxswain), H. 'Sassy' Benton,... - View image in PDF
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