Keith Graham, coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, Sue Pollard and Vic Cocker, chief executive of Severn Trent Water and chairman of the Forward Birmingham campaign, at its launch at the NEC.. - View image in PDF
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Life-boat 70-001 off The Mumbles Glamorganshire - At 7.21 p.m. on 2nd July, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man had been carried through Inner Sound by the tide. The life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35)...
One of the survivors of the Caister disaster in 1901. - View image in PDF
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SOME years ago reference was made in The Life-boat to letters which had been received from the Gold Coast, in one of which the writer, evidently under the impression that the Institution was a general stores, asked for its catalogues, and...
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PORTMADOC. — During a heavy gale from the N.N.W., on the morning of the 7th November, the schooner Louisa, was observed in the direction of the North Bank. At 8 o'clock the Life-boat CwdvM was launched, -went to the vessel and, at the...
Falmouth's Arun Elizabeth Ann speeds away from SS Canberra with her 'medivac' casualty, seen being transferred in the inset photo.. - View image in PDF
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The First World War is one the darkest chapters in our history, but we will never forget the countless acts of humanity that shone through – including those of RNLI lifeboat crews on the home front
This year, we celebrate...
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The new 44-foot steel life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris (44-006) soon after her arrival at Barry Dock and (below) 44-006 undergoing capsizing trials at Lowestoft before her departure for Barry Dock. On the right (above) is Coxswain Frank... - View image in PDF
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THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1959 has been won by Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre for the rescue of the crew of the coaster Hindlea, which went aground in a hurricane on the...
Category: Awards