TWO CASUALTIES TOWED TO SAFETY - CREW INJURED Tyne's 26-hour service in storm force winds Coxswain Kieran Cotter of Baltimore's relief Tyne class lifeboat has received the RNLI's Bronze Medal for Gallantry following a 26-hour...
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On the night of the 21st-22nd Sep- tember, 1953, the Tenby life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the St.
Gowan lightvessel, which was in distress in very bad weather. For a full account of this service and for the awards...
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FOR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE 1982 was a very full year. The Institution's lifeboats were called out more than 3,000 times and the number of lives rescued was the highest in the past seven years: 1,244.
These figures are...
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A new era in the history of Poole's lifeboats began on 27 July 1990 when the Mayor of Poole, Councillor Mrs Anne Stribley, unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the new lifeboat house in a very visible position next to the lifting... - View image in PDF
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.5 on the .
afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the coastguard reported that a man on the St. Gowan lightvessel was ill and needed a doctor. A quarter of an hour later the Superintendent of...
Longhope, Orkneys - On 1st April, 1968, the life-boat T.G.B. proceeded to the assistance of the motor trawler Ross Puma of Grimsby and rescued her crew of 15. A full account of this service will appear in the December issue of THE...
Sheringham, Norfolk. — 23rd April, 1938. The engine of the motor barge Lies, of Rotterdam, had broken down, but a steamer took the barge in tow.— Rewards, £16 3s. 6d..