About 2,000 people gathered on Moelfre beach, Anglesey, on Saturday June 7, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the lifeboat station. A service of thanksgiving and re-dedication was conducted by His Grace, The Archbishop of Wales, during... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 16TH - 26TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At nine in the evening of the 15th the Kyle coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore two miles N.W. by W. of Barra Head, and the life-boat crew were assembled. Shortly afterwards another...
(Right) The divisional inspector of lifeboats is responsible for the efficient operation of lifeboats in his area and carries out frequent exercises with his coxswains and crews. He works in close co-operation with the district engineer, who... - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami was launched in a near gale on Sunday, August 22, to go to the help of American yacht Sonata, taking water four miles south of Cross Sand Lightvessel. Sonata got the leak... - View image in PDF
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Last October, Jimmy Savile, QBE, received the public relations statuette awarded to him for his most valuable help to the lifeboat service from Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution. The presentation was made... - View image in PDF
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
When the London steamer Barnhill was attacked from the air off Beachy Head and set on fire on March 20, 1940, the Eastbourne lifeboat went to her help and put two of her crew aboard to rescue the si'earner''s master who had been... - View image in PDF
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Barry Dock No. 2 lifeboat launched on September 27,1975, to help Storm Eagle, a yacht being driven ashore by a strong south-westerly gale. She got a line aboard just as the yacht's anchor rope parted and towed her, with her three crew,... - View image in PDF
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John Petit joined St Peter Port lifeboat crew in 1952 and was appointed coxswain in 1964; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1963, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1972, bars to his bronze medal in 1975, 1977 and 1979 and... - View image in PDF
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