Thank you for your kind generosity over the festive season. We had an incredible response to our 2016 Christmas Appeal – you gave £1.3M in total. £750,000 of it is being added to a generous legacy, to fund a new Shannon class...
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Cuthbert "Cubby" Cornell, coxswain of Blackpool lifeboat from 1955 until his retirement in 1964. He joined the crew in 1923, and was second coxswain from 1947 to the end of 1954..
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John Edmunds, coxswain of Hastings lifeboat from 1961 to 1971. He joined the crew in the 1940's and served as bowman from 1960 until his appointment as coxswain..
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JULY 7TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
A man had fallen over the Bempton Cliffs, but he was hauled up the cliff face by ropes. - Rewards, £8 12s..
MAY 29TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. A competitor in the Manx Air Races had crashed into the sea, but he was picked up by a fishing boat.-Rewards, £7 13s.
AUG. 20TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 7.30P.M. a message was received from the police stating that some boys in an open boat were missing and had been last seen drifting to sea. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The...
Humber's Arun class lifeboat lies afloat off the tip of Spurn Point, the most southerly fragment of Yorkshire, where the Number joins the turbulent North Sea.
It is the only station with a full-time crew - the members... - View image in PDF
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UNDER the above designation, a " life-boat," or what would be more correctly termed a life-raft, has been constructed by two public- spirited gentlemen, the Messrs. RICHARDSON, of Aber Hirnant, Bala, North Wales, and navigated from...
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On the 27th February, at 1.15 P.M., the Albert Edward Life-boat put off to the assistance of the steamer Blonde, of Whitehaven, bound from Goole for London with a cargo of coal and oil, and carrying a crew of ten men, which had stranded on...
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 15th of January, 1954, the weather worsened while the local fishing boats were at sea, and at ten o'clock the life-boat W.R.A. was launched. The sea was rough, with a whole...