Four incidents near New Brighton Lifeboat Station saw RNLI volunteers put their casualty care training into action during Wirral’s Giant Spectacular in October. As a giant puppet marched through the town, onlookers who took accidental...
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When lifeboat volunteer Duncan Wallace headed off on his Winter honeymoon, he left his crew pager behind – but his lifesaving skills were still called upon 5,000 miles from home.
Duncan (pictured), a Newquay lifeboat crew...
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BECAUSE of the success of the com- petition staged last year the Institution will again hold a photographic com- petition, the closing date for entries being 31st October, 1963. Photographs should be sent to the Secretary of the Institution,...
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Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1960, a report was received that two boys were cut off by the rising tide at Broad Cove. Owing to rough seas it was not possible for a boat to come close inshore, and the...
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—On the 1st March, at about 3 A.M., a light was seen for a short time, apparently from a vessel off Rhosneigir. The crew of the Life-boat Thomas Lingham assembled, and the boat was got out, but the light disappeared, and...
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE. At 6.30 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1946, Saltburn coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that a motor vessel was reported ashore on the Salt Scar rocks.
A light...
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THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
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Slaughden, a mile and half south of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was once a busy port. In the late 1950s, when this photograph was taken, the longshoremen there were advertising their various skills by means of painted signs.. - View image in PDF
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At about 11 o'clock on the following morning the Life-boat again put off to the assistance of the barque Nereus, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow-in-Furness to Queensland with a cargo of steel rails.
Her cargo had...
Coxswain Hugh Nelson (centre) and the Donaghadee crew who took part in the service to Princess Victoria on January 31, 1953. Thirty-four lives were saved by Donaghadee and Portpatrick lifeboats in winds up to hurricane... - View image in PDF
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