LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS HELICOPTER Clovelly, Devon. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday the 1st of September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been injured on Lundy Island. A helicopter which was to fly...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 6.40 p.m. on 8th October, 1963, the Island Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Association asked for the services of the life-boat to attend a woman on the Island of Brechan, west of Sark, who had fallen down...
Miranda Mannings Press, daughter of the donor of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new lifeboat, names the Atlantic 21 watched by Neal Duffield, the station's honorary secretary. (Photo Great Yarmouth Mercury). - View image in PDF
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BARRY DOCK, August 8, 1987: both Barry Dock's Arun and Penarth's 16ft inflatable were called out when this drilling rig, in use for the proposed barrage at Cardiff, broke through the crust of the sea bed and listed to 40 degrees. Two...
James Turpin, coxswain of Fowey lifeboat until his retirement in 1978. He joined the crew in 1938, becoming coxswain in 1959. In 1977 he was awarded the BEM for services to the RNLI..
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Above left. Crews are tipped into the River Medina twice during their courses to familiarise themselves with the righting procedures. A crane is used to capsize the boats.. - View image in PDF
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During the four weekends before Christmas Captain Gordon Wilson, owner of the 60 seat cruiser Fantasia, ran 'Cruise with Santa' trips through Liverpool docks in aid of the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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December Charles Rutland, former box secretary of the Medway branch since the mid 1980s. Charles collected over £30,000 during his term as box secretary and was awarded the silver badge in 1996..
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Coxswain/Mechanic Michael Bowden Bronze Medal Coxswain/Mechanic Michael Bowden of Appledore's Tyne class lifeboat went to the aid of a fishing vessel which had lostpoweron one engine near Appledore's infamous Bar. The lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Left: Brighton lifeboat crew members and SEA Check coordinator Tony Clare snatch the trophy for the fastest RNLI crew team for the sixth year running.. - View image in PDF
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