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On Monday 22 October 2007 I accepted an invitation from Skegness Coxswain John Irving to join some training. By 5.30pm the waterproof tractor was attached to the carriage and the Mersey class lifeboat The Lincolnshire Poacher was towed out...
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A Pontoon
FEBRUARY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
The naval authorities had asked the life-boat to go out to look for a partly submerged waterlogged pontoon, which a shore-boat had found earlier in the day, but had been unable to tow...
Coxswain Blogg's Broadcast.
Gifts still come in answer to the broadcast by Coxswain Henly Blogg, of Cromer, in the "Week's Good Cause" in the Home Service of the B.B.C, last March. There have now been 6800 replies amounting to £5, 260. lo....
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Brave new world
Lifesavers from across Asia and Africa are sharing new-found skills with their lifesaving organisations, thanks to a course run by the RNLI.
An estimated 1.2M people drown around the world every year – more than the number...
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Fuchsia
On the 28th of the same month, the schooner Fuchsia, of Goole, from. Castlehill to South Shields, being in danger on a lee shore, with an E.N.E. gale blowing, the Life-boat proceeded off to her against a heavy sea, and succeeded in rescuing...
Caterina
WINTEBTON, NORFOLK.—The fishingsmack Caterina, of Boulogne, stranded on Hasborongh Sand on the 25th Jane. The Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Husband went to her assistance, and remained by her for about three hours until she floated, when the...
Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance and Green Flag
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—Several fishing boats having been driven from their moorings on the morning of the 16th October, the Out Pensioner Life-boat was launched at 9 o'clock, and saved four large boats, the Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance,...
Commander Solling
A heavy gale •was blowing at E.S.B. on the 18th De- cember, when the Life-boat Foresters' Pride put out and saved 9 men from the brig Commander Soiling, of Grimstadt One man was saved by the rocket apparatus..
Honfleur
The same valuable life-boat afterwards went to the assistance of the barque Honfleur, of Sandiford, Norway, which was likewise stranded on the Cross Sand, and succeeded in taking that vessel and her crew of 13 men to a safe anchorage off...
John, of Hartlepool
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...