Walton and Frinton lifeboat makes the Christmas run out to Sunk Lightvessel on the Sunday before Christmas, taking fare provided mainly by local shopkeepers. In 1978 (left, above) Robin Davis, chairman of East Ham Round Table which funded... - View image in PDF
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Mr. John Taylor, aged 16, of Cullercoats, North Shields, whose father, Mr. R. J. Taylor, is a leading member of the Cullercoats ILB and was an officer for 12 years in the conventional life-boat previously stationed there, has been accepted...
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Boys and girls of Newmarket Swimming Club, aged from six years upwards, took part in a sponsored swim during May in aid of the RNLI. As a result Derek Blyth, swimming club instructor, handed over a cheque for £600 to Mrs Elizabeth... - View image in PDF
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Launches 25. Lives rescued 32.
APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred...
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Peel, Isle of Man - At 11.28 a.m. on lyth June, 1966, a m.f.v. about three miles off Lhen was seen firing red flares.
The life-boat Clara and Emily Banuell, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.55 iQ a south...
AT 3.49 on the afternoon of the 8th of November, 1956, the honorary secre- tary at St. David's, Dr. Joseph Soar, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was being towed into Milford Haven and might need help. The Angle life-boat at the...
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When a well-known Scarborough man ended up in the dark surf last Winter, the community did everything they could to help him -and his memory- live on
In the early evening of Sunday 22 February,...
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REPRESENTATIONS having been made to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION regarding the crews of its life-boats making claims on owners for rescuing the crews of their wrecked vessels in cases where property of trifling...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...