the command of Coxswain Arthur Curnow and had reached Berry Head by 1500. It was found that an 11-year-old boy had slipped 50ft down a 180ft cliff and, with head and arm injuries, was trapped on a ledge. Ambulance men were with him but, as... - View image in PDF
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FRASERBURGH | 9 JULY
Two children were saved from the North Sea after being swept out 250m from the shoreline. The boy and girl, aged 12 and 13, were being battered by waves and were in danger of drowning. Quickly on scene, the...
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The Story of the Land's End Lifeboats (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 155.) is the second volume in the admirable series on Cornish life-boats being fompiled by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr under the composite title Wreck md Rescue...
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Ten stranded HARTLAND COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station at 2115 on Monday March 28, 1983, that an adventure holiday party, three adult instructors and seven children, had not returned following a day...
For the naval historian
The Complete Scrimgeour
– From Dartmouth to Jutland: 1913–16
by Alexander Scrimgeour
Review by Jason Hughes, Inshore Lifeboat Crew Member at RNLI Cowes Released to coincide...
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Start 2017 by boosting your maritime knowledge.
Our collection of New Year reads will also give you plenty of
impressive facts to share at what’s left of the festive party season!
For salty...
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Crew member swims through heavy surf and scales cliff to survivor Simon Chadwick, a member of Bude lifeboat crew, has received a letter of thanks from the Chairman of the Institution following his first service call in the station's D...
Can you help? A message from Corporate Fundraising Manager Barbara Trousdell: Do you have a few hours to spare for a couple of weeks a year? Would you like to become involved in making sure local promotions in aid of the Institution run...
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It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
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0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
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