Did you see Saving Lives at Sea?
The Summer BBC documentary was a big hit with viewers, drawing 3M in its first episode. For the first time ever, film crews were given an access-all-areas pass to the RNLI's stations, lifeboats...
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SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CROMARTY. A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat was overtaken by an R.A.F. speed boat, and returned to her station.- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d.
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MAKING WAVES IN DUNBAR
In January, a group of young surfers from the Wave Project – an organisation that helps young people reduce anxiety and increase confidence through its award-winning surf courses – paid a visit to...
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Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winter- ton, Norfolk, who died on llth January last, at the age of sixty-five, joined the Life-boat Crew at Winterton, Norfolk, in 1884, when he was eighteen years old.
He was appointed Second...
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Court macsherry, Co. Cork.—24th September, 1939. A message had been received that a steamer was in distress, as a result of enemy action, about fifteen miles south of Fastnet Lighthouse. She was the steamer Hazleside, of Newcastle-on-Tyne,...
No matter what is afoot—agricultural shows, flag days and so on—Mr.
A. W. Hawkes, who is an energetic member of the Ipswich branch, can be relied upon to go almost anywhere and to tackle almost any fund-raising scheme....
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Plymouth, Devon. At 10.13 p.m.
on 16th July, 1965, Breakwater Fort reported seeing a small boat flashing distress signals south of Mewstone. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 10.29 i° a light...
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Surely the fittest postman in the east: David Clemens, 69, who is also vice-chairman of Colchester District branch, holds his London Marathon medal aloft as he goes on his delivery round in Marks Tey. He was one of a large team of runners in... - View image in PDF
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