Barefoot in the mud AT 1945 ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1987, two nine-year-old boys were seen by the station honorary secretary and motor mechanic at Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, taking a punt across the River Ribble to the opposite bank,...
Dunbar’s Trent class all-weather lifeboat Sir Ronald Pechell Bt parted the ground chain of her moorings and was repeatedly thrown against rocks in ferocious conditions of up to storm force 10 in the early hours of Easter...
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — On the morning of the 31st of August, 1952, it was reported that a small yacht had capsized between Black Rock Buoy and Hurst Point, and at 11.35 the life-boat S.G.E. left her moorings. The sea was rough, with a...
MR. George Flett, former coxswain of the Aberdeen no. 1 life-boat, received a watch from Watches of Switzer- land Ltd. at a ceremony in Aberdeen on the llth September, 1961. It has been the practice of this firm, when opening a new branch,...
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Calling all yachtsmen: A first-class insurance against disaster is to be well-prepared.
Experience counts above all, but a lot can be learned from good books, and there is no better list of titles on the subject than that...
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Joint Second Coxswain William Clark - Bronze Medal Lerwick lifeboat, 17/18 November 1993 William Clark took Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian alongside the Russian Factory Ship Borodinskoye Polye 35 times to rescue 37... - View image in PDF
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A scale model of the Barra Island Solent class lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Gough, was a great attraction, especially for children, when on display in the Leeds Merrion shopping centre.
The model, made by Brian Hobson... - View image in PDF
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Holmes Chapel and District branch organised a three-day Storm Force promotion last autumn, when branch chairman Mr Charles Godwin and branch public relations officer Mr R G Brown visited local schools with a 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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the command of Coxswain Arthur Curnow and had reached Berry Head by 1500. It was found that an 11-year-old boy had slipped 50ft down a 180ft cliff and, with head and arm injuries, was trapped on a ledge. Ambulance men were with him but, as... - View image in PDF
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To come last in a race and still earn £457.24 for the lifeboats cannot be bad. This entrv in a charitv pram race held between 17 Hampsiead pub teams was dressed up to look (something) like a Waveney class lifeboat and although it came... - View image in PDF
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