The ladies of Lymm and district branch (pictured right with RNLI area organiser for the North West, Jim Crowther) held an antiques evening on 8 November 1996 which raised over £1,200 for Institution funds.
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Fowey, Cornwall.—About 5.40 in the evening of the 28th of August, 1949, the Polruan coastguard reported a vessel in distress three miles east-south-east of Mevagissey, and at 6 o'clock the life- boat C.D.E.C. was launched in a light...
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 7th of November, 1948, the local fishing boat Courage, with a crew of five, was overtaken by bad •weather. The sea was rough in the bay and at the harbour entrance, and when, just before noon...
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the morning of the 1st August several of the fishing-boats of this port were placed in danger by a strong breeze from the N.E., and the Life- boat People's Journal, No. 1, put to sea to render assistance. She was...
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.15 in the morning on the 1st of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat was in difficulties and making distress signals in Seaford Bay. Accordingly at 8.38 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...
Ex-coxswain John Walters died on 2nd September, 1965, at the age of 66. A distinguished member of the life-boat service, he had served as coxswain of the Fowey life-boat for over twenty-five years. He was awarded the Institution's bronze...
Category: Obituaries
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.30 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1960, a message was received from Valentia radio that the fishing boat Ros Bui was drifting two miles south of Puffin Head and needed immediate help. The life- boat Rowland...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. — At 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th of June, 1949, the Cahirciveen Civic Guard reported a rowing boat, with a broken oar and one adult and four children on board, drifting seawards off Kells. Twenty minutes...
On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...
An auction of anonymous postcard-sized artwork raised over £3,000 for the RNLI at the Margate Harbour Arm gallery on 11 September.
Celebrities, professional artists and amateurs contributed to the 100 pieces up for...
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