From a painting by Michael Turner which appeared with Paul Pickering's and Donald McLachlan's article 'For Those In Peril On the Sea' in Reader's Digest for February, 1972. The incident occurred in 1966 when the Holyhead... - View image in PDF
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On the very hot, sunny day of June 6, Mrs Irene Carrington, wife of the president of the St Ives, Huntingdonshire, Rotary Club, named the new D class ILB for Wells station Spirit of Rotary, pouring champagne over her bows. The St Ives branch... - View image in PDF
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Meet the men and women flying the lifesaving flag on the Isle of Man 190 years on ...
Norman Quillin
Ex-Coxswain/Mechanic, Port St Mary<...
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Mobile Training Unit No. 7 (MTU 7) is one of eight RNLI mobile training units which are dedicated to providing training for lifeboat crews at their own stations. The units vary in size from a small van (MTU 8) to large mobile classroom units...
Category: Articles
The air is heavy with the unmistakable smell of sawn timber and Stockholm tar and jangles gently to the sound of a distant bandsaw as I watch a boatbuilder ease a plank into place around the gaunt frames of an 18ft launch under construction....
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AT 3.40 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962 the honorary secre- tary of the Clovelly life-boat station, Mr. J. C. Hilton, learnt from the coast- guard that a tug was firing red flares three miles north-west of Hartland Point. Five...
Category: Services
His Excellency The Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (Major General Sir William Fry KCVO CB). - View image in PDF
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During a terrific gale of wind, on the night of the 8th of January, the look-out-man at Stonehouse Point observed signals of distress from Mount Batten. The Prince Consort life- boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the bay. Owing to...
FOUR SERVICES IN SEVENTEEN HOURS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a resident of Leigh telephoned that a fishing boat was ashore at Marsh End, off Leigh. A strong south-south-west gale was blowing,...
An attractive girl dressed in a Nell Gwynn costume has been seen selling oranges on behalf of the Institution at a number of towns in the south and south-west of England where life-boats are stationed. She is Miss Sue Peters, and the oranges...
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