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A 9Ft Model Arun Lifeboat Was Used By the Newly-Formed North Southwark Branch
A 9ft model Arun lifeboat was used by the newly-formed North Southwark branch to attract people's attention during London lifeboat week in March. The model was built by branch chairman Paul Charter (above) and has a rotating beacon on... - View image in PDF
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Friendly Rivalry: Kim Robertson (Right) Challenged Mick Hewitt
Friendly rivalry: Kim Robertson (right) challenged Mick Hewitt to a 100 yard electric wheelchair race along the promenade as part of Walton and Frinton's lifeboat week. The race was started by a hooter blown by Coxswain Denis Finch and... - View image in PDF
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Question Time:
Question time: three lifeboatmen from Minehead ready to answer questions in a new series of Granada TV's Busman's Holiday, beginning in the new year and offering prizes of trips to exotic parts. Bryan Stoner (I), Chris Rundle... - View image in PDF
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On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat,
On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat, The Duchess of Kent, heads out into a gale and mountainous seas. In escorting one fishing vessel back to harbour and in plucking the crew of another to safety after their yawl had been rolled onto... - View image in PDF
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A Vessel (13)
DEC. 1 7TH. - WHITBY, AND SCARB O R O U G H , Y O R K S H I R E . A m o t o vessel had been sunk by German aeroplanes, but a boat containing eight survivors was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards W h i t b y , £ 9 1 1 s . 3 d . ; S c...
A Yacht
Buzz off! In an unusual rescue in south Wales on 23 July 2004, Burry Port lifeboat assisted a man whose yacht had been invaded by a swarm of bees. The man took refuge in the cabin and radioed for help and the Burry Port D class lifeboat came...
A Convoy of Ships
AUGUST 8TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A convoy of ships had been attacked from the air and some of them had been sunk. The life-boat. put out with the honorary secretary of the station, a naval surgeon and a policeman on board, but a...
The Danish Steamer Marianne Toft, of Copenhagen
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. The Danish steamer Marianne Toft of Copenhagen, had sunk after collision with another vessel. Twelve of her crew landed in a ship’s boat, but ten others in another boat could not be found.-...
Thanks to Stavros
RNLI lifeguards patrolled beaches in Wales this year, with substantial support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Formed in 1996 on the death of the eponymous Greek shipping magnate, the foundation gave a very generous grant to pay for...
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Two B.E.M's.
Coxswain William Swankie, of Arbroath, who won the bronze medal of the Institution in February, 1940, for going to the help of a barge which wa» being bombed by a German aeroplane, and Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down,...
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