Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.28 p.m. on 6th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen off the Martello tower at Seaford. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The tide was...
W.P. Courtauld, member of the Committee of Management from 1972 to 1983 and donor of the Waveney class lifeboat Augustine Courtauld...
Category: Obituaries
Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...
Fire at sea 'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn.
with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24...
The casualty is pictured from the lifeboat making good progress towards Wick where she was safely moored.. - View image in PDF
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David Battle of the television series 'The Antiques Roadshow' made a return visit to Cuffley branch recently.. - View image in PDF
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Hastings was one station which needed a new boathouse (left) with the advent of the Mersey class. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat crews often have to leave the lifeboat and clamber over rocks to reach the casualties.. - View image in PDF
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In order to assist with their fundraising efforts, a special millennium lifeboat quilt was presented to the St Davids ladies lifeboat guild. The quilt was made by Pat Wilson of Gloucester, a group from the Nailsworth Quilters and members of... - View image in PDF
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Rapid response MOTOR MECHANIC GRAHAM WALKER of Wells lifeboat station was on duty in the boathouse on the morning of Sunday June 29, 1986, when he noticed a man and young woman cut off by the flooding tide on Bob Halls...