First silver medal for a Blue Peter ILB crew member was awarded to Helmsman David Bliss of St Agnes. After the award was annouced, David Bliss and his crew were the guests of the BBC's Blue Peter television programme, (left to right)... - View image in PDF
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On the 20th March the same boat pro- ceeded out to the Noordster, a Norwegian barque, at about midnight: it blowing hard at the time, with squalls of snow and hail. A prior attempt to board the Noordster in White's Life-boat had failed,...
The Life-boat Oldham was launched on service at 11 P.M. on the 16th March in answer to signals of distress made by the schooner Two Brothers, of Car- narvon. There was a whole S.S.W.
gale blowing and a very heavy sea, and...
ON the night on 9th January signals of a vessel in distress were seen off Tor Ness at the south-west end of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull.
It was then ten minutes...
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Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland. — At 5.22 on the evening of the 5th of March, 1952, the Holy Island coastguard re- ported to the Holy Island life-boat station a message received from the North Sunderland life-boat station...
Small Paddington Bear soft toys will be on sale in branches of Barclays and Woolwich throughout the UK from 4 July-7 August 2006. They cost just £2 each and all proceeds will go to the RNLI'sTrain one, save many. - View image in PDF
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— At 3.45 P.M. on the 26th December the Coxswain saw a schooner making for Swansea Harbour, and while doing so she took the ground on the east side of the east pier. A heavy N.W. gale was blowing at the time with a very heavy sea. The...
THE Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain W. H. Jones, of New Brighton; second-service clasps to the bronze medals they already hold to Second Coxswain J. Nicholson and Motor Mechanic W. Garbutt; its bronze medal to Second...
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AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL last May the gold medal for outstanding gallantry was presented to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the silver medal to Coxswain/Mechanic Alexander ' Alastair' Gilchrist of...
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(Right) Cyril Watts, with his wife Rita, on board Centaur 731, Eilean Sitheil, in which last summer he completed a sponsored circumnavigation of Britain, starting from the Bristol Channel; he expects to raise £1,000 for the RNLI. Mr... - View image in PDF
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