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Sharon

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Minehead, Somerset, and Life-boat 70-001 at Clovelly-At 12.50 a.m. on 24th September, 1967, it was learnt that a youth had taken out a yacht which was now drifting out to sea. The life-boat B.H.M.H. was launched at 1.12 in a light variable...

Cuthbert "Cubby" Cornell

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

Cuthbert "Cubby" Cornell, coxswain of Blackpool lifeboat from 1955 until his retirement in 1964. He joined the crew in 1923, and was second coxswain from 1947 to the end of 1954..

Category: Obituaries

Glance, Green Flag, Safe Return and Jackdaw

Date: February 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 143

COURTOWN, IRELAND. — On the 16th October, at I P.M., the Alfred and Ernest Life-boat was called out by signals of distress, and brought ashore fourteen men from the fishing-boats Glance, Green Flag, Safe Return, and Jackdaw, of Arklow,...

M.B.E. for Scottish Honorary Secretary.

Date: September 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 13

In the Birthday Honours Mr. George Norrie Craighead was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work as honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. He is now serving in the R.A.F., and his wife...

Category: Articles

Aegis Insurance Services (Group) Ltd

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

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Category: Advertisement

Marathon Cheques

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

Kennet Valley sailing club ran a ten hour marathon sailing relay in aid of the RNLI and a local hospice last summer. Friends and relatives of the crews were persuaded to sponsor them for the number of laps of the 'gravel pit' they... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Will Everard

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

Caister, Norfolk. At 8.20 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1960, the life-boat mechanic telephoned to say the barge Will Everard was aground on Scroby Sand due east of the life-boat station. This was confirmed later by the coastguard....

Fishing Cobles (2)

Date: May 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 260

—On the 27th Dec- ember, when twenty of the fishing-cobles belonging to Filey were at sea, a strong S.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up, bringing with it a very rough sea. As the men in the cobles were in considerable danger the Life-boat Hollon...

A Parachute

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

SEPTEMBER 2ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

At 9.58 in the morning the coast-guardreported that a parachute had been seen to drop twelve miles to the S.W., and at 10.23 the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched....

Rooky's Challenge

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

In July, chartered surveyor Paul Rocky successfully completed the Avon challenge - a 50 mile row upstream along the Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford - to raise cash for the lifeboats.

• Paul's time (excluding stops)... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs