Injured man A YACHT AGROUND in Worbarrow Bay was reported to the deputy launching authority of Weymouth lifeboat station at 0006 on Sunday September 24, 1978, and at 0030 the 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell, with Coxswain Alfred Pavey in...
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service before the public every day of the year, and we hope that...
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Coxswain Neil Stewart, of Wick, Caithness-shire, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing 31 men from a motor barge and a tug which had gone on the rocks in a gale. In the first glimmer of daylight the coxswain took...
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By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
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ABOUT 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th July, 1961, a girl who was swim- ming was seen to be in difficulties near the slipway which is used for launching the Appledore boarding boat. There was a slight, variable breeze and a calm sea. It was...
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Guy and Clare Hunter, in gale force winds, standing by the acht Braemar before taking her in tow. May 22, 1967. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Bowman Richard Lethbridge. - View image in PDF
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THE PERIOD of a little over a quarter of a century during which the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was the Institution's President, will almost certainly be looked back upon by future historians of the life-boat service as one of...
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AT the age of 62 Coxswain Henry Nicholas, of Sennen Cove life-boat, has been awarded the bronze second service clasp for gallantry. Nearly 45 years earlier he won his first bronze medal at the age of 17 when the Sen- nen Cove life-boat...
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With half of its crew women, seven of its volunteers from the same family and not a drop of salt water in sight, Lough Derg is a unique lifeboat stationAt the turn of the Millennium the RNLI began to look at new ways to save lives, in...
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