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Crew rescue man trapped in capsized fishing vessel James McPhee, the coxswain of Campbeltown lifeboat, has been awarded the Thanks of the RNLI inscribed on Vellum following a service to the work boat Gille Brighde, when she capsized on 29...

The new Whitehills Life- boat, which was on passage from the building yard at Cowes to her Station, with the Northern District Inspector of Life-boats aboard, left Aberdeen at 8 A.M. on the 14th August. At 10.30 A.M. a message was received...

Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 15th of September, 1949, a boat owner reported that his sailing boat Brigand was missing with a man and a woman on board. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at...

THE photograph of Coxswain Blogg, of Cromer, on the cover, was taken by Illustrated in 1940, and is reproduced by its very kind permission..

Walton and Frinton is often described in the tourist brochures as a peaceful seaside resort but it provides a different picture when there are gale-force winds blowing off the North Sea.. - View image in PDF

Last year the three fighting services, with their women's services, gave the Lifeboat Service more than ever before, £25,508. That is £6,123 more than in 1942..

Fitting out of the Institution's second mobile training unit caravan was undertaken by Peter Fulton (centre), honorary training consultant to the RNLI; while work progressed, the caravan was parked outside his home. Helping with the... - View image in PDF