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Four Rivers
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 10.55 P-mon 29th April, 1967, it was reported that a motor yacht was aground off Lowestoft lighthouse and in danger of capsizing.
The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her mooring at 11.5 in a...
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Category: Advertisement
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Leo A. Clegg, D.S.C., D.A., of the Aberdeen life-boat Ramsay-Dyce, Appointed second coxswain in 1960, Coxswain Clegg, who is a lecturer at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, became coxswain later that year. Since 1960 the life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top of the Form: Alton Branch
Top of the form: Alton branch present an annual trophy to the pub in their area which raises the most money for the Institution. Since 1982, the trophy has, each year, gone to the Railway Hotel whose landlord, Max Reitzler, has collected... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Man the Life-Boat."
THE following lines, which graphically describe the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by one of the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, were written by WILLIAM POTTER, a coast- guardman and coxswain of the Cahore Life-boat, on the...
Category: Poetry
The Mystery Lifeboat...
Continued from page 95 The Mystery Lifeboat...
... the photographs are of Lynmouth, North Devon.
I think they must have been taken about 1925-26. Asa youngster I went with my parents for a week every... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Gear and Its Stowage
AT first thought, the manner of stowing a Life-boat's gear might not appear to be a matter of much, importance: that it is so, however, we shall have little difficulty in showing.
Even on the ample deck of a man-of-...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
Six new life-boats were named in 1955.
Four are in Scotland at Stornoway, Stronsay, Stromness, and Troon; two are in England at Southend-on-Sea and Fowey. An account of the Southend naming ceremony appeared in the September...
Category: Inaugurations
Sesam (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...