Above: Margate's inshore lifeboat Tigger Too. gets alongside the tug during the exercise.. - View image in PDF
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Below: Brighton crew in their Atlantic 75 Thelma Glossop and local firemen come to the aid of the pleasure craft Ocean Spirit. - View image in PDF
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Gary Whiting from Mirfield in West Yorkshire, turned heads earlier this year with a hair-brained scheme to raise money for charity - he had half of his beard and moustache shaved off! Gary, went about his daily routine for ten days before... - View image in PDF
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Bill Coleman, Leamington Spa vice chairman, recently gave a talk on the lifeboat service to the 3rd Warwick (St. Nicholas) Brownie pack.. - View image in PDF
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It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
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Mrs D.E. Fison, who generously helped to defray the cost of the Harwich lifeboat John Fison..
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MARCH 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after 5 p.m. the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Water Lily, which could be seen about three miles north of Margate pier, appeared to be in trouble with her engine, and the motor life-boat The...
OCTOBER 18TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 5.7 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a four-masted steamer drifting towards the rocks. Her position was given...
DECEMBER 17TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 10.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the sea was rising and that the coble Provider was still at sea. At 11.15 the motor life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched....
The morning of 1 June was sunny and calm – the perfect day for a sightseeing trip around Coquet Island bird reserve.
Amble’s lifeboats, the Mersey class The Four Boys and D class Rosemary Palmer, were called out at 11am to...
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