HUNGER CALL At 1.15 p.m. on 2ist December, 1964, the chairman of the branch was asked by the manager of Radio Invicta, a wireless transmitting station on Redsand Towers, if the life-boat would take food to the radio station as no other...
APRIL 1991 W, Softley, the last surviving crew member of the Brancaster lifeboat, the station having closed in 1935..
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Member, Order of the British Empire Lawrence Grove MBE Morton and Port Eynon lifeboat station. - View image in PDF
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November 1998 Phillip Brian Roberts, founder Crew Member and Senior Helmsman of Porthcawl inshore lifeboat between 1965 and 1978.. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Shortly before 10 A.M. the coastguard reported an object, apparently a boat, about one mile E.S.E. of Sizewell look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at...
THE life-boat station at the Humber this year celebrated the 150th anni- versary of its foundation. A certificate inscribed on vellum, signed by H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, was presented to the...
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On the 31st of January, 1953, two members of the crew of the Islay. Inner Hebrides, life-boat collapsed in the engine-room and died while the life- boat was searching for the trawler Michael Griffiths. This was the day on which the Princess...
Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the...
TOW FOR TRAWLER Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.40 p.m.
on I4th October, 1963, the honorary secretary was told by the crew of a small yacht that a trawler had broken down about five miles east of Tenby. The lifeboat Henry Comber...
Lifeboats will always launch, whatever the weather, but one way of reducing the calls on the service is to identify the reasons for distress calls and to work towards preventing those circumstances from occurring in the first place. This is... - View image in PDF
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