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• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...
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Dr A. Wattison,
Dr A. Wattison, chairman of Anstruther station branch. He was honorary medical adviser at Anstruther for over 25 years, being awarded the Scottish Council Record of Thanks. Dr Wattison became chairman of the branch in 1982..
Category: Obituaries
Kevin Walker, One of the Younger Members of Galtres Forest Branch,
Kevin Walker, one of the younger members of Galtres Forest branch, recently presented a cheque for £207 to Teesmouth lifeboat station. Kevin, pictured handing the cheque over to coxswain Peter Race, raised the money by completing a 25... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary. Ex-Coxswain John Hayter, of Brooke, Isle of Wight
MR. JOHN HAYTER, who was for 32 years Coxswain of the Life-boat at Brooke, Isle of Wight, died on 17th July, at the age of 91. He was appointed Coxswain when the Station I was opened in 1860 and retired in 1892. He was four times awarded the...
Category: Obituaries
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When three people’s lives were in danger, off-duty lifeguards knew what to do
At 6pm on 16 August 2011, three lifeguards finishing their day at Porthcothan, Cornwall, advised everyone to leave...
Category: Articles
Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local fishing boat Success, which had been out fishing all night, enquired by wireless at nine in the morning of the 20th cf May, 1948, what the condition was at the "harbour mouth. She was told that if she came...
Past and Present
From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT of August 1892 THE WRECK OF THE EIDER On the night of Sunday 31st January 1892 the four-masted s.s. Eider of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat As Ambulance
Shortly before 10 o'clock in the evening of 18th April last, just as the s.s. Clanwood, of Sunderland, was leaving Hartlepool for Ghent, with a cargo of coal, a gas explosion occurred on board.
The weather was fine with...
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The Life-Boat Service In 1950
THERE were 603 launches of life-boats to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the record number in 1949—and life-boats rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives were rescued by shore-boats, for which the rescuers were rewarded by the Institution,...
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150th Anniversary
H.M. COASTGUARD celebrated its 1 50th anniversary on 15th January, having been formally established in 1822 as the 'Coast Guard' following the report of a 'committee appointed by His Royal Highness The Prince Regent to enquire...
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