Above - Bude lifeboat crew and the divisional inspector return from a lively ecercise in the surf.. - View image in PDF
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Keith Johnson, Cromer town council chairman, pours champagne over the newly-named lifeboat during the service at Tynemouth.. - View image in PDF
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Right: Rosaleen monitors the 'injured diver' on oxygen as pan of the exercise.. - View image in PDF
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cover picture: A member of the RnLI’s Rapid Response Unit watches over an evacuee in the summer floods Photo: robin Goodlad. - View image in PDF
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Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. — 16th April. A yacht had grounded on the bar, but got off on the flood tide.— Rewards, £11 8s.
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—In the early hours of the 30th of .May. 1956, the life-boat station was told that the motor fishing vessel Tranquillity of Fleetwood was overdue from trials of a newly installed engine. At 8.5 the life-boat Edmund and...
Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 5.16 p.m.
on 20th August, 1965, the honorary secretary received a ship's telephone call from the master of the motor vessel Lochard, who had seen flares being fired half a mile south-west of...
DEC. 21ST. PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.55 P.M. the coastguard reported that flares had been seen two miles south of Rattray Head. A light N.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The motor life-boat...
THE first gallantry medals to be awarded to crew members of an inflatable lifeboat were in September 1969. Robert Stewart and Andrew Scott of Amble won bronze medals for the rescue of two men from a capsized yacht, off Amble...
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HIGH AND DRY Margate, Kent. At 11.22 a.m. on l6th August, 1964, Mid Barrow lightvessel reported that a yacht was ashore at North Shingles sands. It was low water with a moderate sea and a light southeasterly breeze. A helicopter which had...