Cromer lifeboat museum: Don Harvev (I.), the honorary curator, and Jim Smith, station honorary secretary, with some of the piclures of Coxswain Henry Blogg.. - View image in PDF
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SELF-DEVOTEDNESS OF SAILORS.
THERE is no part of the task which in con- ducting this publication we have imposed on ourselves, from which we anticipate more satisfaction than the relation of acts of self- ilevotion and...
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Runs aground: not quite Lords but an equally demanding wicket. Due to obvious tidal reasons the sponsored cricket match between Chichester branch and the Hayling Island lifeboat crew and supporters had to be limited to 20 overs per innings.... - View image in PDF
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Campbeltown's Severn class lifeboat Ernest and Mary Shaw, deputy second coxswain David Cox; crew member Stephen Scatly. - View image in PDF
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Padstow: On the morning of January 26 the local fishing vessel Lamorna ran into difficulties when a rope got wrapped round her propeller about three quarters of a mile off Newquay Head.
She put out an anchor to await help... - View image in PDF
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(below) a bouquet for Lady Killanin, who named the lifeboat, is presented by Rosemary Quig/ey, daughter of the deputy launching authority; with them is Mr Clayton Love, a vice-president of the RNLI.
photographs by courtesy... - View image in PDF
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April Meeting.
Benbecula, Western Isles.—At about 8.30 P.M. on the 24th September, 1937, during a flowing tide, three men tried to cross South Ford to South Uist in a horse trap, but half-way across the horse got into...
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Torbay lifeboat, the 54ft Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37), approaching Haldon Pier, Torquay, in the early hours of October 22, 1980, to land a badly injured man rescued from a car over the cliffs (see... - View image in PDF
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• ev he first call came at 7.40am on Thursday 12 October. Following some of the heaviest rain ever seen in the South East. East Sussex Fire Brigade requested the RNLI's assistance with flood relief in Uckfield. This was the start of a...
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The remains of Margate pier after the storm of 1977 — the badly damaged lifeboat station stands isolated between it and the shore. (Inset) The new station, built near the landward end of the old pier.. - View image in PDF
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