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Listings Miss Betty arrives at Crosshaven Ireland's 42nd lifeboat station opened on 19 October 2002 and her new boat was welcomed to the RNLI fleet. Crosshaven has until now been served by Ballycotton to the east or Courtmacsherry to the...
Category: Articles
Brian Potts (I) Who Came Ashore In 1976 After 16 Years at Sea As An Engineer Officer In the Merchant Navy Presents a Painting to Eastbourne Lifeboat Museum It Wa
Brian Potts (I.), who came ashore in 1976 after 16 years at sea as an engineer officer in the Merchant Navy, presents a painting to Eastbourne Lifeboat Museum. It was accepted by Alderman Cecil Baker c.), station honorary secretary, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the Sharp End
The Lifeboat C class inflatable Operational Number C518 The Crew Thanks on Vellum: Helmsman Jeremy Thomas Crew Member Leonard Walters Lifeguard Simon Jury Vellum Service Certificates Andrew Walters Michael FaulknerC classjj-Iu_cksjthreejto...
Category: Services
Tv Stars Draw Record Breaking Lottery
Joan Hooley (Josie from EastEnders) and George Sewell (Matt Drayton in The Detectives) drew the winning tickets for the most successful Lifeboat Lottery ever on 26 January. The 92nd draw beat all previous records, raising £283,832. Top... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...
Category: Advertisement
Dollard (1)
Silver service at Cleethorpes and NumberIt is a rare occasion that Cleethorpes and Number crews work together on shouts. Only 5 miles apart as the crow flies, the two stations couldn't be more different.
Cleethorpes...
A Swim Too Far
A sWim too fAR During the aftermath of Hurricane Gordon, when Ireland was buffeted by extraordinary gales, one woman found herself in grave danger The call came on 21 September 2006. As she cleared the shelter of the harbour and entered...
Category: Articles
Feature Better Beaches, Safer Seas
The RNLI's Beach Rescue pilot scheme has been running all summer on selected beaches in the south west of England. As the time approaches when a full evaluation of the pilot will be made, Jane Smythson visited one of the pilot projects...
Category: Articles
Bronze Medal for Fowey Coxswain
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (27)
JUNE 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Sandgate coastguard that a Hurricane fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles S.S.W. of Dungeness. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea...