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Fond farewell to volunteering trio
Having given almost two-thirds of a century to the RNLI between them, three Scottish volunteers are retiring this year. After clocking up 14 years (and 6,625 nautical miles), Peter ‘Ped’ McKinnon is retiring from his role as full-time...
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A Warming Drink After Their Three-Hour Service for (I to R): Eric Mcgonagle Helmsman Michael Gambrill Nigel Scammell and Richard Judge Photograph By Courte
A warming drink after their three-hour service for (I to r): Eric McGonagle, Helmsman Michael Gambrill, Nigel Scammell and Richard Judge. photograph by courtesy of Whitstable Times. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
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Shannons named
Volunteer crews welcomed new Shannon class lifeboats in the Summer.
The second Shannon to be placed on station arrived at Exmouth, Devon, on 12 May. At Dungeness in Kent, HRH The Princess Royal officially named and...
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Taking the wheel
‘Being able to do something for someone – giving them that extra chance – you just feel pleased that you’ve done it,’ says Jennie Court, before our interview is brought to a sudden halt. We’re interrupted by the shrill ringing of a bell from...
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Olive May
On the 3rd Septem- ber, at about 5.15 P.M., fishermen told the Coxswain that a barge, two miles E.S.E. of Cromer, was flying a signal. The weather was fine with a smooth sea and strong W.N.W. breeze.
The signal was not...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
COVERACK, CORNWALL.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Coverack, where there is an active body of fisher- men, with a view to rendering assist- ance in case of wrecks on the Manacle Rocks, not far from...
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Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SUNSHINE greeted lifeboat people from all parts of the country who began to gather on South Bank, by the River Thames, early on Tuesday May 11 for what was to be a most moving and memorable day.
It was a day which...
Category: Awards
No Sea Room from Page 18
No Sea Room from page 18 and one man was clinging to the gunwale and the other two were just inside the bulwarks clinging to his legs. Of course you always wonder what's going to happen to the last man off, because there will be nobody...
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