Sarah Todd and David Collins, surrounded by other children from Fairfield Primary School, Penarth, present a cheque for £90 to Captain W. G.
Sommerfield, honorary secretary of Penarth station branch, and to Mrs... - View image in PDF
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The sea conditions during the service can be judged from this photo - that is a 500ft. 9.000 ton vessel almost obscured by the breaker…. - View image in PDF
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Two conferences were held in the Southwestern District during January. The first, at Newport, Isle of Wight, was a conference of Life-boat workers in the Island, and the second, at Exeter, of Life-boat workers in Cornwall and Devonshire,...
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Gourdon, Kincardineshire. —• At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th of March, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer reported seeing wreckage eleven miles east-south-east of Gourdon, believed to be of the S.S.
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The Aberdeen Pulling and Sailing Life-boat. - View image in PDF
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Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to be in difficul- ties in Hoy Sound. The honorary secretary, the coxswain and the motor mechanic drove...
How do young volunteers get involved in the RNLI of the 21st century? Life is not as simple as it used to be but the charity has a solution
Historically lifeboat stations were able to casually welcome enthusiastic...
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She was a self-righting Life-boat, 40 feet by 10 feet; served from 1870 to 1890 and rescued 99 lives.
She now lies on the beach at Aldeburgh, where she is used as a store. In frcnt of her are Tom Cable and John Pead, the... - View image in PDF
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Exmouth Helmsman Roger Jackson thought he would never launch a lifeboat again. But now four young men owe him their lives
Exmouth is a popular seaside destination but on the afternoon of 23...
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THE Republic of Ireland's river Shannon, longest in these off-Europe islands, and, with its many lakes and tributary Grand Canal and river Barrow making it probably one of the largest single connected waterways in Europe, is becoming...
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