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Keith Murphy
ALB Navigator |
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David Needham
Senior ILB Helmsman
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Paul Rogers
ILB Helmsman
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Joined 22 years ago
Keith is one of the ALB Navigators.
He works as the second steward at the Royal Naval Old Comrades Club.
Main interests are yachting, dinghy racing for 30 years and has raced National European & world championships. |
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Joined 1988.
Started on Station as part of his Duke of Edinburgh scheme and has been here ever since. Married to Tracey and has two children Jade and Ryan, Works as deputy harbour master at Sovereign Harbour and his younger brother Peter is an ILB Helmsman.
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Paul Rogers.
oined 1993,
One of the stations ILB Helmsmen and AWB Navigators.
Married to Dawn who used to crew the ILB and was onboard in 1997 when Ian Stringer was awarded a Silver medal.
Has a daughter Sydney and son Charlie.
Paul works as a plumber.
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Adie Leese
ALB Navigator |
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Guy Emery
(Paramedic)
3rd Mechanic
(Retained)
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David Riley
ILB Helmsman
ALB Navigator
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Peter Needham
ILB Helmsman
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Joined June 2002
Adie is one of the ALB navigators, works for Orange personal communications as a rigger.
He worked as an Arctic trawler man out of Grimsby when he first left school. Interests include DIY, most of it spent working on the second Coxswains yacht.
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Joined August 2004
Works as a paramedic with Sussex Ambulance Service married with two daughters. As a sailing instructor Guy is a keen sailor and has his own yacht moored in Sovereign harbour, He is also a qualified motor mechanic which makes him a useful asset to the station.
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Joined 1997.
Was on the crew the night of the Paperchase shout.
worked for Sovereign Harbour for 9 years.
Is now an ILB Instructor at RNLI college Poole
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Joined 1996
Works with Ian Stringer at Eastbourne buses maintenance department and is usually the chief instigator of all the micky taking out on Ian, much to everyone else’s delight and does not seem to mind the dirty jobs this bring on.
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Ian Pattison
Senior ILB Helmsman
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Andy Chatton
ILB Helmsman
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Alan Simister
ILB / ALB Crew
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Jay Cartwright |
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Joined December 1999
AKA Taffy due to the fact he is the only Scouscer on the crew.
Ian is married to Leesa and has four children.
Taffy used to be the Marina Boson at Sovereign Harbour,
Ian is now a building contractor.
He is an ILB Helmsman and ALB crewmember.
Previous boating experience is traveling from the pier head to Birkenhead on the Mersey Ferry.
If you need cheap electrical's,
go see Taffy!!
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Joined April 2001
ILB Helmsman and ALB Crewmember
Works next to the ILB station as manager /director of Southern Head Fisheries.
His main hobby is riding his motorbike and scuba diving |
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Joined July 2003
Alan Works in support services at a local college and is single He is an officer with the local sea cadet corps and is in charge of boat handling and training.
His hobbies include Dinghy sailing and kayaking. |
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Lionel Hartley
Co'located Prospected Crew Member |
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Trevor Moule
ILB / ALB Crew
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Simon Elliott
ALB Crew |
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have been a member of Eastbourne Voluntary Lifeguards since was 11, also I'm a qualified beach lifeguard,
my enthusiasm for the water comes from my family,
as most of my relatives have had something to do with water. ever sinceI can remember I have been out playing with boats with my uncle (Alan Simister)
My hobbies are power boating, Eastbourne Voluntary Lifeguards, swimming,life guarding,
paddling, fixing PC's
(which is my main work)
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Simon Elliott
aka WALRUS (the reason for which being fairly obvious) is married to Linda and has 2 children, both kids having now flown the nest
Linda and Simon recently moved to a house on the harbour with their 3 cats and 2 dogs. WALRUS has a penchant for large old things
(vehicles that is) he loves Harley Davidson Motorcycles his 1955 Cadillac and his day to day transport, a 30 year old Land rover called Lilly. He says that being a member of the Eastbourne Crew is the best thing he does while keeping his clothes on. |
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Martin Penfold |
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Pete is studying International Relations and his hobby is rifle shooting! Due to his studies he is known as Kofi Annan. He has joined his University St Johns. Very useful, if he loses an argument he will shoot you and then bandage you up!
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Joined april 1999
Married to Charis.
Tims Dad Richard (Dick)is a long standing shorehelper and Brother Dan is the station mechanic.
Tim works at Screwfix Direct.
Hobbies include football, speedway and doing his best to wind up Dan. |
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Martin has been a shore helper until this year.
He is married with two children and works as youth worker and carer.
Martin is now a crew member of both the ALB & ILB
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Trainee ALB - ILB
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Lifeboat Medical Advisors
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Dr Colin McKee |
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Dr Stephen Lytton (Deputy) |
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Colin is the Lifeboat Doctor and has worked as a GP in Eastbourne since 1975.
He now works with the Fire Service as their Doctor.
His main role on the boat is keeping out of the way until a medical emergency arises when He actually has to do something useful.
Colin is nearing his sell by date and is hoping that a younger doctor will take over his role soon. |
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Joined in 2005
Stephen is a GP in Eastbourne.
He has enjoyed sailing all his life,
still prefers sails to motors on boats but has discovered the excitement of both. |
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Tony Hylands |
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Paul Huntley |
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David Cornwall |
Joined January 1974
Long standing shore helper father of Dan the mechanic, Tim shore helper and also has a daughter Sophie. Married to Liz, Dick is often first at the station for a call out and gets the boarding boat ready to take the crew out to the ALB and also supervises the wash down and refuelling preparations. Dick works for Alfa laval Pumps and his main hobby is speedway.
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Tony served as a shore helper 1980-1988.
ILB Crewmember
1987-1993
2 letters of thanks from RNLI
Retired from Lifeboat
1994 and started with
HM Coastguard
Letter of commendation for saving womans life at Beachy Head.
Tony returns to Lifeboat as shore helper at ILB station.
Runs Ensign sign company. |
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Joined Sept 2003
Paul sails out of Sovereign Harbour in "Libertad" a
Halberg Rassey 42'.
He works in the Oil and Gas industry as a fast rescue boat instructor and sea safety auditor.
First joined the RNLI as a Sea Safety volunteer working with Seacheck.
To promote Seacheck he sailed "Libertad" around Britain in 2002 with RNLI crew. Paul is a shore helper at Eastbourne lifeboat station. |
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Dave is a Plant Fitter and drives about Sussex making machinery work again. The Station’s BobCat is his pride and joy. Has two young children who take up quite a bit of his time.
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Alan Agnew |
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Joined 2009
Rachel works as an Ambulance Technician for the South East Coast Ambulance Service and has done since 2004.
With past experience inc lifeguarding. She has always been a keen lover of the water, being born and bred in Eastbourne
Allways sees herself as a Coastal Girl. She loves playing in and on the water and her new love is Scuba Diving, having recently passed her Open Water in the Red Sea. |
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JoinedAugust 2005
Alan moved to Eastbourne in 2000 after living in Northern Ireland.
He is married with four children and is an active member of the Eastbourne Angling club where he berths his seventeen foot fishing boat.
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Joined Feb. 2005
Bob is an Offshore Yachtmaster who lives on Sovereign Harbour with his partner Lynne and sails a Bavaria 32 yacht.
Last year, along with other members of the Lifeboat crew, sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Lagos in Portugal to St Lucia in the Caribbean.
During the summer season can be found aboard the famous William Allchorn pleasure boat taking tourists up to Beachy Head and back.
He is a keen golfer and recent past captain of Lewes Golf Club.
A Member of the RNLI Sea Safety Advisory Team
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Joined 2004
Brian works at Gatwick airport as an aircraft technician working for British Airways. Lives in the Harbour with Wife Christine who is a shore helper on the station. Hobbies include fly fishing when he has time. |
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Jonathon Green
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Christine Wood |
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Sue Holt |
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Jonathon started sailing at 6 years old. He volunteered with the Tall Ships Youth Trust as a deckhand and watch leader. Later he went on to work with the World Ocean School on S/V 'Roseway' in the US Virgin Islands and up and down the east coast of America. During this time he was working towards an Open University Law degree, upon his return he took up full time study and is currently reading Law with Business (LLB) at Brighton University. In his free time Jonathon likes playing golf and spending time on the water.
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Joined 2005
Christine is married to Brian a fellow shore helper.
Christine works at Gatwick Airport as a fleet administrator, hobbies are shopping and lunching with friends. A lot of time is spent as Secretary to the Fundraiser's for Eastbourne Lifeboats.
Christine spent a lot of time helping with the raffle at the Regatta
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Joined 2005
Sue is a shore helper and lives in the south harbour at Sovereign harbour, Sue is also an active member at Sovereign Harbour Yacht Club and enjoys yacht sailing and racing and her partner Brian is the Yacht Club Commadore.
She also makes a lovely cuppa too when the crew returns from an ex/shout.
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