The 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Edith Emilie moored at the RNLI Poole depot quay for her naming.. - View image in PDF
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The five medallists at Festival Pier for a 'photocell' aboard the new Trent class prototype. Photo Maggie Murray/Format. - View image in PDF
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Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 5th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the fishing boat May Blossom was in difficulties four miles south-west of Barmouth, and at 3.45 the life-boat The Chieftain...
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 19th March, the weather being fine and clear, and the wind moderate, the ship County of Ayr, of Glasgow, bound from Glasgow to Batavia, stranded on the Jack>s Hole- a Part of the Arklow Banks. whlch...
MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 21st July 1879 the Mincing Lane Life-boat rendered some assistance to the Dutch fishing-smack Nooit Polmakt, which had gone too far to the northward while running for the harbour, and had stranded on the Annat Bank...
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Torbay, Devon - At 12.20 a.m. on I4th May, 1967, it was reported that a car had been seen to run over the headland close to the look-out. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings, with the small boarding boat in tow, at...
Galway Bay. On the 8th of October, 1958, the Minister of State for Gaelic Affairs arrived at Kilronan with other officials in the island mail steamer with the intention of visiting the neighbour- ing islands by motor boat the next day and...
The Record of North Sunderland and Stromness.
IN anarticlein The Lifeboat for November, 1925, on the centenary of the Appledore Station we gave the remarkable record of the present Committee, five members of which had...
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Martin Woodward is the former Coxswain of Bembridge Lifeboat Station. Now in his 60s, he could be forgiven for taking it easy after years of dedicated service. Not a chance!
In 2009, Martin climbed Kilimanjaro, Africa’s...
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Yealm River and Plymouth, South j Devon.—The s.s. Veghtstroom, of Amster- dam, whilst bound from Fowey to Amsterdam with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Mewstone at theentrance to Plymouth Harbour on the 21st November. Information of...