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The 26-feet Auxiliary Yawl Shona
Lytham St. Annes.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a yacht was aground on the south side of the Riddle Estuary. It could be seen that she was dried out close up to the South Training...
A Fishing Calendar for 1949
ME. H. JENKINS, the Lowestoft photographer, whose photographs of lifeboats will be familiar to readers of The Life-boat (one of them will be found on page 212) has, for the eleventh year, produced a fishing fleet calendar. It has fourteen...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1908
No Blue Book issued by a Government department is more interesting or more important than that issued annually by the Board of Trade dealing, by means of " Abstracts " of returns, with all the shipping casualties which each year...
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The recipe for a perfect evening
The RNLI Fish Supper, supported by Lakeland, is a tasty annual fundraising event that supports our lifesaving work. It's a great way to serve up some extra support for the lifeboat crews who are on call around the...
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Bronze Medal for Fowey Coxswain
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
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La Colina and Steamer Mergus
Penlee, Cornwall. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that the life-boat would be needed to meet the motor vessel La Colina of London off the Wolf Rock lighthouse and take...
The Prince of Wales In a Motor Life-Boat
IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...
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Top award for lifeguards
A year ago we reported how lifeguards at West Kirby in Merseyside teamed up with lifeboat crews to save a man who had fallen onto rocks. Now the team have been recognised with a special award.
The Alison Saunders...
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