LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....

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0 A new base for Scotland The new combined Scotland divisional base and regional office was officially opened on 7 March 2002 by HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI. The move was planned some two years ago when...

NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBER- j LAND.—At about 5 P.M. on the 7th | January a message was received stating that the steamer Teesborough, of Mid- dlesbrough, was ashore about three- quarters of a mile outside the harbour.

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RNLI fundraising offices Scotland RNLI, Unit 3, Ruthvenfield Grove Inveratmond Industrial Estate Perth, PHI 3CL Tel: 01738 642999 Email: [email protected] Eastern RNLI, Magdalen Road, Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7 BAD Tel: 01473 822837...

THE MAIN SHORELINE office has now moved from Salisbury to the new Headquarters building at Poole. This has entailed the movement of records and equipment and changes in clerical staff.

While we are, of course, making every...

Ix the gales of last November, and again in January of this year, the Dutch Life-boat Service did magnificent work, but, like our own Service, it suffered heavy loss.

The same terrible gales which struck our own coasts...

THE three life-boatmen who lost their ! lives when the crab boat Boy Jimmy sank a hundred yards off shore near Cromer were all members of the Cromer No. 2 life-boat.

One was the coxswain, James William Davies, who was...

Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...