(right) Lifeboats from the Relief Fleet visit a large number of stations and are often involved in services which earn awards for the lifeboat crews. The Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser was at Yarmouth on relief duty when coxswain Dave... - View image in PDF
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No 40, Nelson Road, Wimbledon, has become a mecca for model railway enthusiasts from all over England when Walter Cox opens his garden to the public for one day each summer to show off his OO gauge model railway in aid of the RNLI. The Mayor... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Kate Stoy, governor and Lewisham branch committee member for more than 30 years and wife of former branch chairman Fred Stoy. She was awarded the RNLI's silver badge and, as chairman of the local Trefoil Women's Guild, organised...
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• She is ex-lifeboat R.A. Colby Cubbin No.1 (ON 929), a 46ft motor Watson lifeboat. She was stationed at Douglas, Isle of Man, between 1956 and 1988 and during her RNLI service launched 115 times saving 95 lives. She was refitted in 1975... - View image in PDF
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40.1653A beach goer raised the alarm at Blackpool on 13 September, when he spotted that his partner was having trouble in the water. Two of the three station lifeboats were launched immediately and the woman, who had gone for a swim, was...
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On the 11th February the schooner Water Lily, of Pwllheli, dragged her anchors in Darby Haven, in a heavy gale from the N.W., and sprang a leak. A signal of distress being hoisted, the Castletown life-boat was sent for, and proceeded to her,...
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — One of the beach pants belonging to Sonthwold was engaged in shipping pilots during a strong breeze on the 4th April, and at 1.30 A.M., the wind haying freshened to a gale, and a heavy sea breaking on the shoals,...
MONTROSE.—On August 17th, at 1 P.M., the herring-boat Vivid of Ferryden, got aground on the Annat Bank, with a fresh south-easterly breeze, a good deal of sea on the bank. The Life-boat Roman Governor of Caer-Bun was launched and proceeded...
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIBE.—On the morning of the 16th December the barque Beecher Stowe, laden with deals, was driven ashore off Mablethorpe. The Sutton Lifeboat, the Caroline, was then drawn to the spot, 3 miles, by land, and launched to the aid...
The No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the 7th May, signal guns havjng been fired by the "Wold Light-vessel. On reaching the Hasborough Sands the barque Sirius, of Drammen, timber laden, was found near Palling Knowl,...