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Balancing

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Balancing poles are fitted just before the lifeboat is clear of the water. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None (1)

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

COXSWAIN DIVES FOR BOY IN a life-saving service at St. Ives, Cornwall, on 26th July, 1972, Coxswain Thomas Cocking, who had been taken to the scene by motor launch ahead of the ILB, dived overboard to assist a boy who was in...

Rhyl - Mersey Class Lil Cunningham

Date: Autumn 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 522

The band strikes up at the Rhyl naming ceremony. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Left: Blackpool's Boathouse

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Left: Blackpool's boathouse sits in the shadow of the famous tower.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cromer Lifeboat Appeal

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

In at the deep end: Coxswain Richard Davies of Cromer (r) demonstrates the depths to which he will sink in order to collect money for the Cromer lifeboat appeal. The East Anglian branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored snorkel... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Accidental Help

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

Accidental help When 11 year old Lauren McBoyle of Colsterworth fell of her bike breaking both her wrists, she was understandably upset. However when people asked to sign her plasters she decided to charge them for the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Alnair, of Monrovia

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 p.m. on 5th July, 1966, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Liberian tanker Alnair of Monrovia, which was some distance out. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 4.25 a.m. on 6th July in a...

Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving In 1957

Date: June 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 384

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1957 has been won by Mr. William Morris, the motor mechanic of the Barmouth life-boat.

He wins the award for the rescue in his own motor launch of four swimmers who...

Category: Awards

A Punt and a Canoe

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

THREE LIFE-BOAT CALLS IN FOUR HOURS Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.20 on the afternoon of Friday, August 23rd, 1963, the Moelfre coastguard reported that an 8-foot punt with two on board was in serious difficulties four and a half miles south-south...

Endeavour

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Kirkcudbright.—On the evening of the 3rd of August, 1957, the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was returning from a visit to Port William for pub- licity when a message was received at 8.10 from Portpatrick radio that red flares had been...