Ex-coxswain John Walters died on 2nd September, 1965, at the age of 66. A distinguished member of the life-boat service, he had served as coxswain of the Fowey life-boat for over twenty-five years. He was awarded the Institution's bronze...
Category: Obituaries
THE motor life-boat which the Insti- tution has built for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to take the place of the motor life-boat destroyed by fire while being overhauled at Cowes in June of last year, was named at the building yard of Messrs....
Category: Inaugurations
from Fairey marine WAVENEY Class 13.4 metre Self-righting Lifeboat, one of 117 lifeboats built by our East Cowes yard for the R.IM.L.I.
A boat of this Class, built for St. Helier, Jersey R.N.L.I. Station is featured in the...
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15 June: Yarmouth, Solent At 10.33am a mayday call alerted the Yarmouth lifeboat to a yacht in trouble in gale force winds. A female crew member had been hit by the boom and suffered a serious injury. The...
Category: Articles
Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...
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Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—On the night of the 23rd December the Greek steamer Michalis Poutous, of Piraeus, bound light from Rouen to Barry Dock, ran on to the rocks in Bridgwater bay, near Burnham. She...
THE General Post Office is issuing a set of postage stamps to mark the ninth international life-boat conference being held in Edinburgh in June 1963. The stamps will be in the denominations of 2|d., 4d. and Is. 6d. and will be on sale...
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Douglas, Isle of Man.—During the afternoon of the llth March, 1939, a strong N.W. gale sprang up, with a heavy sea. Anxiety was felt for the local fishing smacks Useful and Manmn, which were at sea, and the motor lifeboat Manchester and...
The Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay is towed away. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs