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  • noun man who crews a lifeboat

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Examples

  • Wonderful as it is to find volunteers in charities and communities offering help that would not otherwise exist, there are surely places – hospitals, social services, police stations, care homes, libraries – where you might not want to encounter, in any key worker, the noble spirit of the lifeboatman and not merely because these are basic services that should not rely on organised goodwill.

    Do we really want to be policed by hobby bobbies? Catherine Bennett 2010

  • Did you hear the one about the RNLI lifeboatman and the ewe? enlarge image

    YBW News 2010

  • Local lifeboatman Ross McKerlich said he was amazed that the submarine went ahead with a crew transfer where it did.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Local lifeboatman Ross McKerlich said he was amazed that the submarine went ahead with a crew transfer where it did.

    The Guardian World News Richard Norton-Taylor 2010

  • Local lifeboatman Ross McKerlich said he was amazed that the submarine went ahead with a crew transfer where it did.

    The Guardian World News Richard Norton-Taylor 2010

  • Did you hear the one about the RNLI lifeboatman and the ewe? enlarge image

    YBW News 2010

  • He has been described as "one of the bravest men who ever lived", was the most decorated lifeboatman of all time and remains one of Norfolk's greatest heroes.

    EDP24 News 2010

  • Thankfully the friend, Alex Evans, is a lifeboatman.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Vandals deface statue of Cromer lifeboatman Henry Blogg

    EDP24 News 2010

  • Thankfully the friend, Alex Evans, is a lifeboatman.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

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