Fred Walkington (I.) and Brian Bevan. Fred Walkington joined Bridling ton lifeboat crew in 1965 and was appointed coxswain in 1975; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1979. Brian Bevan was a member of Bridlington lifeboat crew from 1967 to... - View image in PDF
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Torbay, Devon. — On the 21st of August, 1948, the Brixham Torbay Royal Regatta races were being held.
A strong south-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and about half past eleven in the morning two...
An injured man stepping ashore from the Cromer life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed after being taken from a boat off West Runton, Norfolk, on 3rd March, 1968.. - View image in PDF
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MR. WILLIAM LIGGINS, of Coventry, who died on the 29th of June, at the age of 97, was for over a third of his very long life associated with the Life-boat Service. He was honorary secretary of the Coventry branch from 1915 until 1933, and...
Category: Obituaries
About 10 A.M. on the 26th September, a N.E. breeze increased to gale force, causing the sea to break heavily at the harbour entrance, and making it very dangerous to cross the bar. As the motor fishing boats Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and...
IT is THE GLORY of St Paul's that it can embrace all the grandeur of national occasion and all the simplicity and friendliness of a parish service. The RNLI could have had no happier setting for its 150th anniversary service of...
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A Year of Conspicuous Services.
THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...
Category: Annual Reports
Alors! Visitors to the Three Horseshoes at Turves, near Whittlesey, might have been forgiven for imagining they were in France rather than in the Fens of England. The landlord of the pub, exiled Frenchman Christian Kolich, and his wife Terri...
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In March 1999 the RISILI celebrated 175 years of service to those in peril on the sea. March 2002 marked another historic milestone - 150 years' continuous publication of the Lifeboat, the magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat...
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On the afternoon of the 16th November a N.E. gale sprang up, bringing with it a heavy sea, and caused the schooner Mary Ann Mandel, of Barrow, which was riding off Kings- downe, to get into a dangerous position.
She...