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St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head.

DURING September four Inaugural Cere- monies of Motor Life-boats took place, making a total of twenty-two such cere- monies held this year. The accounts of the other...

'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...

November 1995 Mrs Maggie May (Pinnie) Howells MBE, a founder member of Tenby ladies' lifeboat guild. In 1939 she was chairman of the guild and later president from 1975 to 1994. Mrs Howells was awarded a statuette in 1987 and received a...

BROADSTAIRS. — Flares having been blown close to the North Foreland, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Bradford, was launched at 6.45 A.M. on the 13th January, and found the brigantine Douse, of and for South Shields, from Poole, in ballast,...

At 11.30 A.M.

on the 21st February the steam drifter Renown, of Yarmouth, with a crew of nine hands, was making for Penzance Pier, in a fresh breeze and rough sea, when she took the ground about a cable's length from...

75 years ago the British Navy attempted an audacious wartime operation. It would change the course of the Second World War – and challenge our lifeboats to tackle a very different kind of...