THE LIFE-BOAT [JUNE, i* Statement! INCOME AND EXPENDITURE— 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1954. 1953 £ 184,064 EXPENDITURE LIFE-BOATS:— £...
Category: Accounts
Kite-surfers hit by sudden squall Members of the Littlehampton inshore lifeboat crew were called into action in September 2003 when a group of kitesurfers were suddenly swept across the beach and out to sea by strong offshore windsThe alarm...
Rhyl couple tie the knot
Congratulations to Coastguard volunteer Andrea and RNLI volunteer Andy, who brought a whole new level of inter-agency cooperation to the shores of Rhyl when they got married in June. Andrea...
Category: Articles
The 1st Great Barfordand Blunham Brownies raised over £212 for the RNLI following a talk by Biggleswade branch presenter and box secretary, Matthew Kilpin.
The brownies, aged between six and seven years old, were very... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dungeness, Kent - At 10.15 p.m. on 26th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties four miles south south east of Dungeness. The motor vessel Mouthouet was standing by. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson...
When the tempest raves, and the angry waves Break crashing on the shore ; When the vessel cracks, and drops in her tracks, I face the ocean's roar.
I dance o'er the heaving surge and the foam, For the stormy sea is...
Category: Poetry
Awards to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's...
Category: Awards
Aberdovcy, Gwynedd September 12, 27 and November 11.
Abersoch, Gwynedd September 15 and November 14.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 5 and October 27.
Arbroath, Tayside October 26.Atlantic...
Category: Services
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About three in, the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that an auxiliary sailing yacht, one and a half miles to the eastward, was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Mary Scott,...
. . . and evening.
The dav over, a theatre party of medallists and their families . . . 1966: the late Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow (silver medal), Skipper Ian Innes of Helmsdale and Crew Member Donald Laker of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs