LAUNCH WAS OVERDUE At 5.45 a.m. on 3rd September, 1964, the harbour office told the honorary secretary that a motor launch had left Dublin for Dun Laoghaire at midday and had not yet arrived. There was thick fog at the time with light airs...
Figs 2 and 3 fbelow): The a/I purpose inflatable stretcher on trials alongside the new Arun lifeboat Robert Edgar.. - View image in PDF
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 10.5 a.m. on 13th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a flare had been seen off Sully island. The lifeboat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 10.15 in a south westerly gale with a rough sea. The...
Barrow, Lancashire - At midnight on 3rd August, 1966, a red flare was reported about two miles offshore. At 12.45 a distress signal was observed from the fishing boat Luella. At 1.5 the lifeboat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.28 p.m. on 6th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen off the Martello tower at Seaford. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The tide was...
W.P. Courtauld, member of the Committee of Management from 1972 to 1983 and donor of the Waveney class lifeboat Augustine Courtauld...
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David Battle of the television series 'The Antiques Roadshow' made a return visit to Cuffley branch recently.. - View image in PDF
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Hastings was one station which needed a new boathouse (left) with the advent of the Mersey class. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat crews often have to leave the lifeboat and clamber over rocks to reach the casualties.. - View image in PDF
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In order to assist with their fundraising efforts, a special millennium lifeboat quilt was presented to the St Davids ladies lifeboat guild. The quilt was made by Pat Wilson of Gloucester, a group from the Nailsworth Quilters and members of... - View image in PDF
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