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Membership News
G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e I i ne • S t o r m F o r c e Hitting the target In the summer edition of THE LIFEBOAT we asked whether it was possible to set our sights on obtaining that 200,000th active member by the end of 1991. We have...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Keeping it in the family! Stephen Simmons, new recruit of Sheringham lifeboat crew, not only has all the skills required to be a lifeboatman but also has lifesaving in his blood - he joins his father, the helmsman of the lifeboat, and elder...
Category: Articles
A Body-Board
Off-duty lifeguard saves body-boarder When a man was caught by a rip current and swept towards some rocks at Newquay, Rod MacDonald, an off-duty Beach Rescue lifeguard, acted instinctively and bravely to save the man's lifeOff-duty Beach...
Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the 18th May, the Life-boat Jonathan Stott was launched at 6.30 A.M., and remained in attendance until several cobles, which had been overtaken by a heavy sea, had safely reached the shore..
A Guinea for a Paper Flag
ON Life-boat Day in Blackheath Village, one of the collectors visited a factory where an auction was being held of the building and plant.
She asked the auctioneer to put up one of her paper flags. This he did, and it was...
Category: Donations
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The Humber, Yorkshire, and Skegness, Lincolnshire. — 31st December, 1937.
Flares had been seen from the Inner Dowsing Light-vessel, but a search revealed no sign of any vessel in need of help.—Rewards : The Humber,...
Noel
On the night of the 15th October the fishing boat NoSl, of Lancaster, bound with a crew of five for Fleetwood, got into diffi- culties in heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing,, with a rough and confused sea. The NoBl got out of...
A Rescue at Gibraltar
WHILE H.M.S. Wishart was at Gibraltar last June one of her boats' crews picked up the crew of a yacht which had capsized. The rescued men gave their rescuers ten shillings, and they sent it to the Institution..
Category: Donations
A French Military Seaplane
St. Helier, Jersey.—6th April, 1939.
A French military seaplane had been forced down in the sea, but she was helped by a French fishing boat.
Letters of thanks were received from the French Navy and the...
A Small Motor Yacht
Torbay, Devon.—3rd July, 1939. A small motor yacht had caught fire, but another yacht rescued the only person on board. A donation was received in gratitude for the launching of the lifeboat.
—Rewards, S.2 Ws..