Decks awash in a near gale, Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat, James and Catherine Macfarlane, tows home the 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster, which had broken down off Tintagel Head. Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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Who could help you find a lifeboat, build a scale model of one or even uncover the adventures of a former lifesaving craft?
There’s one branch of the RNLI whose members are brought together not...
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Lifeboat supporters on the submarine gangplank. - View image in PDF
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Tuesday, 6th May, 1858. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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The Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, with Second Coxswain Robert Jones, took the wheel of Holyhead's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Hyman Winstone during a visit on July 18. Mrs Thatcher also met crew members and their wives and branch and... - View image in PDF
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St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9 a.m. on 25th February, 1967, a message wasreceived that a local doctor wanted the assistance of the life-boat to land the master of the motor vessel Orwell. The vessel was due at St. Ives at 9.20 in a near gale...
NORTHUMBERLAND. — Oh the morning of the 17th November; while a large number of fishing-boats were out, the wind rose, on the turn of the tide, to a strong gale from S.E. The sea was also very rough. The cobles that were nearest the shore...
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Below - Two young lifeboat supporters from Cheshire take a breather during their recent sponsored walk across Holy head mountain, Daniel Parkinson and David Holmes raised a splendid £100 for Kelsatt branch through their efforts on the... - View image in PDF
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'Fifty-three miles over two and a half days couldn't be that difficult - then we saw the OS map! Why are all these brown lines so close together?' - Jem Gotch and members of Second City Diving Club well above sea level..
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MEDAL FOR LYTHAM COXSWAIN On the 21st July. 1962, the Lytham- St.-Anne's life-boat towed the motor ketch Lone Seeker, which had four people aboard, from a dangerous position. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 346,...