ON the closing of the Burnham Life-boat Station the following awards were made :— To FREDERICK J. KING, who served for 5 1/2 years as Coxswain, 4 1/2 years as Bowman, and previously 30 years as a member of the Crew, a Coxswain's...
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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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THURSDAY, 5th Oct 1871 THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair. j Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous j Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees. I Also the Report of...
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Jan Goddard from Aberdovey lifeboat station is just one of the RNLI's female crew members who play an increasingly important role, not only in active service but also in recruiting new members.. - View image in PDF
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28 January: Littlehampton Crew Member Jon Maidment is pictured with ‘Sammy’ the swan. The crew found Sammy bleeding and in distress with fishing line lodged in his throat, picked him up (but not without some...
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Last bowman Ronald Chapman has been promoted to Second Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat.
This means that the historic position of bowman will no longer exist within the RNLI as he was the last lifeboatman to hold the post.<...
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Determination in appalling conditions saves four 1-iftbtial.
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman was awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal, and his six-man crew received medal service certificates, following a hazardous rescue of...
To DAVID CRASKE, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 20 years as Bowman, and previously 5 years as a member of the Crew of the Grimsby Lifeboat, a Life-boatman's Certificate of Service and a...
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A large four- masted barque, named the Crown of Germany, whilst bound from Portland to Limerick with a cargo of wheat, came into Ballyheigue Bay, in mistake for the mouth of the Shannon, on the morning of the 10th July, during a S.W. gale...
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...