Disabled catamaran THE HONORARY SECRETARY OF Mudeford lifeboat station received a pager call from the Coastguard at 1845 on Wednesday July 11, 1984, after reports that a catamaran had overturned and was in difficulties off Chewton Bunny.<...
THE two members of the crew of the Easmey, Hampshire, inshore rescue boat, Helmsman Robert Faro and Roy Richards, have each been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum for rescuing two people from a speedboat which capsized...
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Mr. T. E. PURDY, J.P., C.C., has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institu- tion, in recognition of his long and valuable services as Honorary Secretary of the Colwyn Bay Branch, and will be presented with a copy of the Vote...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At n a.m. on igth April, 1967, news was received that the motor yacht Pandora had broken down about 14 miles south east of Port St. Mary and the freighter Caxton was standing by. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...
Women from Prestatyn Inner Wheel visited Rhyl Lifeboat Station to deliver a considerable donation to their lifeboat appeal, after former Coxswain Peter Robinson gave them a talk about the station’s history.
The women enjoyed a...
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DURING a recent visit to Scotland Yard to discuss future flag-day arrangements with the police, the district organising secretary for Greater London asked the inspector what he thought of the Institution's emblem, as there had been...
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The Life - boat Charles and Eliza Laura was called out during moderate weather on the 23rd December, and stood by the steam- trawler Goosander, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the rocks at Dulas Island. The vessel was successfully...
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— The motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the llth December, 1937, to stand by the Beadnell fishing boat Jane Douglas, which, with a crew of three, was returning home. A very heavy sea was...
THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the Welsh District and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in touch...
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This May will see the return of Mayday, our big yellow welly-themed fundraising event
An annual celebration of brave lifesavers around our coasts, Mayday brings together...
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