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An R.A.F. Launch
JANUARY 16TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 1.50 P.M. a message was received from the Stepper Point coastguard that a large R.A.F. launch, which had arrived under Pentire Head, needed help. A fresh N.N.E. breeze was blowing with...
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor
Denied credit during his lifetime, Lionel Lukin has since been acknowledged as 'the first who built a Life Boat'. To commemorate the inventor's 250th birthday last May, assistant public relations officer Robin Sharp relates the...
Category: Articles
Hrh Princess Alice
HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, presents an inscribed wristwatch to Daniel Norman. With them are the Duke of Atholl, Chairman of the Institution, and Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, Director.
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Category: Photographs
Barking for Brass
Cuchulainn the Irish Wolfhound and owner Julie Burden, are keen collectors on Peel branch flag day. When Julie, whose husband is a crew member of Peel lifeboat, invites members of the public to contribute no one ever refuses - Cuchulainn... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emulate, Honour, Random Harvest and Green Pastures
TWO LIFE-BOATS ESCORT COBLES Amble, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
On the morning of the 26th June, 1962, the weather deteriorated rapidly.
A north-north-easterly gale sprang up, and the sea became very...
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where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
Category: Correspondence
Royal Wish Fulfilled
Royal wish fulfilled When Her Royal Highness Princess Anne named Southendon- Sea's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat last May, she confided in broadcaster Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI's public relations committee,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht
On passage A YACHT IN DIFFICULTY in gale force winds, 12.4 miles bearing 015°M from Llandudno lifeboat station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Thursday, August 4.
RFA White Rover was...
Lizzie
On the I night of the 13th April a strong N.
I gale suddenly sprang up, and about i 11.30 P.M. one of the cobles returning j from the lobster pots reported that the ' weather was very bad at sea, and not fit ...
Switha
Cromer, Norfolk. — At 2.33 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel at anchor one mile north by west from Cromer Lookout had hoisted a signal for help, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Henry Blogg was...