Three lifeboat crews are celebrating proud RNLI histories this year, as Fowey, Fleetwood and The Lizard stations turn 150.
One remarkable rescue for Fowey came in 1865, with 13 people saved from the barque Dryden and 9...
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Geoffrey Garrick, regional organiser for south London (I) receives a cheque for £710 from Cyril Mulchings, chairman of Epsom and Ewell swimming club, and hands over an RNLl plaque in return. The link between the boys and girls of the... - View image in PDF
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Preparations are made well in advance: Mrs Brenila Clark (I. foreground) and some of her helpers hold a Garden Shop planning conference..
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The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...
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BOAT-THIEVES RESCUED W aimer, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morn- ing of the 1st of November, 1947, a wireless message from the South Good- win Light-vessel said that she had picked up a small boat with two men aboard, and wanted the life-boat to go...
Lytham, Lancashire.—At 11.10 Oil the night of the 23rd of September, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Bonita, of Stock- holm, had a man on board who had drunk poison and needed immediate medical attention. At...
Broken mast ABERDOVEY'S ATLANTIC 21 ILB launched at 1515 on Sunday November 12, 1978, after being informed by HM Coastguard that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the estuary; her mast was broken.
It was raining at the...
Coxswain Richard Davies - Bronze Medal Cromer lifeboat, 13 October 1993 Richard Davies was in charge of Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat when she was involved in a long service in which she rescued a 30ft yacht and saved her crew of four.<... - View image in PDF
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Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
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