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(Below) and Eric (R) and Colin Pavey Father and Son Serve Together In Weymouth
(Below) . . . and Eric (r) and Colin Pavey, father and son, serve together in Weymouth's 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell. Ericreceived the long service badge last year and Colin, who joined the crew in 1980, is now assistant... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1936, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935, reached Wells, Norfolk, on llth February...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths.
John Doyle Former Fethard station honorary secretary, on 2 September Dick Evans Former Moelfre coxswain, on 14 September Patrick Morrison Mallaig crew member, on...
Category: Obituaries
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
The Prince of Wales In a Motor Life-Boat
IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Torpedo Craft C.T.21
JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.
There was a thick fog, but the sea was...
Your shout
My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire, on Tuesday 17 July.
We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...
Category: Articles
A Catamaran
Two crew rescued from disabled catamaran after rigging cut free Falmouth lifeboat coxswain Alan Barnes and crew member Peter Wood have been awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following the rescue of two people and...
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Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 11.10 a.m. on I5th August, 1965, a bather was reported in difficulties half a mile south of the station. At 11.13 the IRB launched in a slight sea and took the bather on board, returning with him to her station...