Hundreds of fancy-dressed swimmers and spectators brave the elements at Charmouth beach each Christmas, thanks to Carol and Geoff Prosser at the Royal Oak, to raise money for Lyme Regis lifeboat station, so far to the tune of over... - View image in PDF
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Sand dredger Sir Cedric, making water fast, was towed from three miles west ofTrevose Light back to harbour on October 11,1975, byPadstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane under the command of Coxswain A.... - View image in PDF
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IT will be remembered that this com- petition was started in 1918 and proved a great success, over 5,000 schools taking part. It was continued in the two following years, and though each year there was a considerable decrease in the number...
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(above and near right} The lifeboat manoeuvres alongside Supenramp as she pounds on the rocks in a Force 7. - View image in PDF
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In the four years and nine months of war our life-boats have rescued 5661 lives, and have won 204 medals for gallantry..
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The recent advertising campaign '£5 buys him a pair of boots' has highlighted the costs of kitting out a lifeboatman.
The protective clothing, boots, bump cap, lifejacket and lifeline cost £167. It's...
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Ice cream and face paints. Barbecues and bunting. There’s something very traditional about a lifeboat station open day, but there's also a definite 21st-century edge
In the pages of the...
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Stromness lifeboat Violet, Dorothy and Kathleen. - View image in PDF
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Redcars Atlantic 75 And D Class. - View image in PDF
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" As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is ' That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.' The last occasion on which I had the satisfaction of presiding at the Annual...
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