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        RNLI’s Walter Crowther

        The RNLI celebrate a volunteer's long service.

        News 1962 1 mins Silent

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        Walter Crowther of Plymouth is recognised by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and presented with a certificate for long service and a mantel clock. Walter Crowther served as coxswain from 1939 to 1961 and received a bronze medal in 1942 for rescuing two airmen from a Royal Australian Air Force Sunderland Flying boat after it drifted onto rocks in Jennycliffe Bay.

        Founded in 1802, Plymouth Lifeboat Station is one of the first coastal stations to have its own lifeboat, built to a design by Henry Greathead of South Shields. Boats are usually named after benefactors and lifeboat men and women are volunteers who go out in all weathers and on rare occasions sacrifice their own lives in the rescue of others. The RNLI continues to be financed solely by charitable donations and manned by trained volunteers. Sir William Hillary set up the Institution in 1824 and since RNLI lifeboat crews and lifeguards are believed to have saved over 140,000 lives. The RNLI is based in Poole in Dorset and has a museum, an archive and a memorial sculpture by Sam Holland commemorates lost crew.