To his friends and colleagues, David Stogdon appeared to live entirely without fear yet he was a survivor of at least two near-death experiences. In 1940, during the Second World War, the destroyer Brazen sank underneath the young naval...
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About eight o'clock on the evening of 8th December, 1962, the trawler Boston Heron ran aground at Stilamair, an uninhabited island south-west of Scalpay in the Little Minch. A south- south-westerly gale was blowing, gusting to force 9,...
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Eeor-nly wanted to help. . .
The donkeys at Mablethorpe beach were so taken with the work of the local lifeboat guild, they wanted to join! The ladies explained that special permission would be needed to do any donkey-work,... - View image in PDF
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THE British Broadcasting Corporation took the opportunity of the visit of life-boatmen to London for the annual meeting to put the life-boat service on the air. There were four broadcasts that week, and a fifth three weeks...
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THURSDAY, 5th July, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
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Thank you for my journal (the Lifeboat, Winter issue). The prize-winning photograph taken by Neville Murphy, of the Dunmore East station crew changing room, brought back memories of my boyhood. When in Sunderland, I accompanied my...
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The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
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Friday, 11th January, 1919.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., V.P., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:— CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND £. s. d.
(per W...
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More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
St Bees - North Division St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man.
The shallow...
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