Walmer, Kent.—At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 1st of September, 1955, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the East Goodwin lightvessel that a yacht needed help about two miles west-by- south of the...
THIRTEEN new motor life-boats were named during 1952. Six were on the English coast, at Barrow-in-Furness, Clacton-on-Sea, Hoylake, Minehead, Padstow and Plymouth; four on the Scottish coast, at Aberdeen, Eyemouth, Gourdon and Whitehills;...
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A naval architect and an accident and emergency doctor from Southampton are just two of the many RNLI supporters who ran the Virgin London Marathon in April.
Nick Burton and Mairi Reynolds, who will marry in July, ran the...
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Volunteers Ian and Sue Bell have rather an unusual role with the RNLI – and have raised over £47,000 towards saving lives at sea
This active retired couple take care of the diverse range...
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CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. While returning to Carradale at 10.30 in the morning of the 1st of May, 1943, after discharging herrings at Campbeltown, the crew of the fishing boat Amy Harris were passed in Campbeltown Loch by a flying boat...
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 TWO GOLD MEDALS 7 NEW YEAR HONOURS 15 NORWEGIAN LIFE-BOAT ANNIVERSARY l6 SERVICE TO NORTH SEA OIL RIG 20 RESCUE OF FIVE BOYS AND A GIRL 22 FRAMED LETTER FOR COXSWAIN AND CREW 24 OBITUARY 26...
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IN consequence of more than one of the lifeboats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION having upset and broken adrift when in tow, through being to«red without any one on board to steer them, the following Instructions have been...
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Simon Cooke, a member of Torbay lifeboat crew, unearths an unusual explanation for an unusual service...
Lifeboat crews up and down the coast spend many hours searching for people reported missing , but not many get called...
No one knows more intimately the fishermen and life-boatmen of Whitby than Mr. Leo Walmsley, author of "Sally Lunn" and "Three Fevers," from which the film "Turn of the Tide", with its life-boat scenes, was made...
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PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—The ketch Tavy, of Plymouth, entered the harbour at 7 P.M.
on the 14th February, but was unable to take a pilot owing to the rough weather, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S.E. and a very heavy sea...