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William Pirie

Date: Spring 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 532

William Pirie, coxswain of Whitehills lifeboat from 1957 to 1969. He joined the crew as bowman in 1949 and was second coxswain from 1952 until his appointment as coxswain..

Category: Obituaries

Brian Fell,

Date: Spring 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 532

Brian Fell, chairman of Hinckley branch from 1980 to 1995 and honorary secretary from 1975 to 1980. A founder member of the branch he was awarded a Silver badge in 1991..

Category: Obituaries

A Steamer (5)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

FEBRUARY 12TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. A steamer had stranded off Crail, but when the life-boat coxswain hailed her he was thanked and told that help was not needed. - Rewards, £9.

Boy Charlie

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

JANUARY 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

During the afternoon the motor life-boat George Shee was launched for exercise in a N.N.W. gale, with a rough sea. As she returned to her moorings at about 3.30 P.M.

she saw...

Cleethorpes Crew

Date: Autumn 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 570

From left are Cleethorpes Lifeboat Operations Manager Jack Barlow, Senior Helmsman Shaun Sonley, Senior Helmsman Gary Barlow, Tractor Driver Richard Clarfc, Crew Member Paul Spall and Crew Member Jamie King. (Also see page 43). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Scholarships for Sons of Life-Boatmen

Date: July 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 346

THE Outward Bound Sea School, at Aberdovey, which runs four-weekly courses in seamanship and some other out-of-door subjects for boys from fifteen to eighteen and a half years old, offered the Institution in March of this year six King...

Category: Articles

A Dinghy (11)

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Dunbar, East Lothian - At 11.54 a.m. on 3Oth July, 1967, it was learnt that two children in a yellow rubber dinghy were being swept out to sea from Whitesands.

The life-boat Margaret slipped her moorings at 12 o'clock...

Epimachus, of Amsterdam

Date: July 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 45

On the 18th De- cember, the Dutch galliot EpimacTws, of Amsterdam, was seen to be running for the shore, with a flag of distress up, 4 miles north of Berwick-on-Tweed. The life-boat at that place was at once launched, and pro- ceeding to her...

Three Brothers

Date: August 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 125

CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—At about 9 A M on the 21st March, during a gale from the N.W., the flat Three Brothers, of Chester, which was riding at anchor in Cemlyn Bay, exhibited a signal of distress. TheGood Shepherd Life-boat at once proceeded to...

Amity

Date: August 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 97

On the 1st January last the Life-boat Augusta, stationed at this headland, rendered good service to the schooner Amity, of Beaumauris, which, while on a voyage from Bangor to Swansea, became embayed in a dangerous position during thick...