By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
A VISITOR who called at Life-boat House this autumn made the remark that he never opened a newspaper without seeing in it something about the Life- boat Service....
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Tony Purnell talks to David Cowper following his two circumnavigations in an ex-RNLI lifeboat At the London Boat Show in January 1991, David Cowper was named Yachtsman of the Year. The award recognised a number of sailing achievements,...
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Early on the morning of the 9th March, signals of dis- tress were seen binning in the direction of the Cross Sand. The alarm was at once given, and the Winterton life-boat was con- veyed along the beach and launched; but the wind and sea...
Ten small boats WEST MERSEA deputy launching authority was informed by HM Coastguard at 1652 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that an upturned sailing dinghy had been sighted l'/2 miles east of Shinglehead Point. Maroons were fired and at 1700...
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Ix the last number of this Journal attention was drawn to the valuable co-operation of the Man- chester Branch, and the important services rendered to the Life-boat cause in that city, resulting, as was shown, in the presentation of...
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At 7.15 P.M. on the 9th June a mes- sage was received by telephone from the Civic Guards at Curracloe that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay.
The Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. put out in a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
Tyne's inflatable used to reach stranded fishing boat survivors A service to a 17ft fishing vessel and her crew of two in hazardous conditions, among rocks and in rough seas, has earned two men from Wick's lifeboat station the Thanks...
How many people does it take to save a life? As a mother and son found out last summer, it can take a village
It was almost 5am on Tuesday 14 August when the crew at Skerries Lifeboat Station were woken by their pagers. A...
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