Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 10 a.m. on gth August, 1966, a white cabin cruiser appeared to be in distress aboutfour miles south west of the station.
There was a moderate south westerly breeze with a slight sea. It was low...
JUNE 1 0TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At about noon a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth.
The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
PORTHDINLLAEN. — A schooner was observed in distress, having lost all her sails, about two or three miles N.W. of Porthdinllaen Head, during a very heavy gale from N.N.W. on the morning of the 20th May. The Life-boat George Moore put off at...
Surgeon Captain John Page CBE RN, vice chairman of Gosport Branch from 1982 to 1989 and a long standing member of the committee..
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December John Atterton MBE, former RNLI deputy director from 1969 until his retirement in 1981. Mr Atterton first joined the Institution in 1936..
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Mr. John D. Russell, the senior partner of Binder, Hamlyn & Co. (Chartered Accountants), who died in January, joined the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution in 1954, and was elected a vice president in...
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Mr John Stockley, a founder member of the Stockport Crew of Lifeboat Auxiliaries, and a long-serving member of the Manchester Executive committee.
Mr Stockley joined Stockport branch in 1938 and the Stockport 'Crew'...
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At midnight on the 12th November it was reported that a vessel had gone on the Long Bock. The Life-boat's crew were summoned, and the boat proceeded to the vessel and brought ashore her crew of three men. She proved to be the schooner...
John R. Atterton, MBE, the retiring deputy director, has served the Institution since 1936.. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 1997 William John Arthur, former Falmouth mechanic. Mr Arthur's RNLI service spanned over 43 years - 20 years as a crew member on the Cadgwith rowing and sailing lifeboat, 12 years as mechanic at Cadgwith (at the outbreak of WW2)...
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