Celebrity Ronnie Corbett was the guest of honour at North Sunderland's lifeboat fete, held on 25 August.
It proved to be a record fundraising day for the hard working local ladies lifeboat guild who were supported by... - View image in PDF
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Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
JULY 1991 Molly and Peter Tabor, donors of the D class lifeboat stationed at Port Isaac..
Category: Obituaries
• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.
Should an organisation so...
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Appointments Fred Breck - Stromness lifeboat station Coxswain Mark Criddle -Torbay lifeboat station Coxswain Rob Fossett - Lyme Regis lifeboat station Deputy Launching Authority Dr George Knox - Newhaven lifeboat station Lifeboat Medical...
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Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of November, 1954, the coxswain reported that the Warden of the Calf of Man, who had been stranded at Port St. Mary for six days by bad weather, was anxious to return to the island...
NEWSPOINT What would Sir William Hillary have thought about the day when Rye Harbour lifeboat rescued 29 children and adults from inflatable toys on a hot summer's day earlier this year (see Lifeboat Services)? When he founded the RNLI...
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Recruiting Y.L.A. Members at Shows by Alasdair Garrett MEMBERSHIP of the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association has now reached 4,700—an increase of 2,000 in the last seven months. Y.L.A. members and other supporters of the...
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Dur- ing snowstorms and very cold weather, on the morning of the 16th January, signals of distress were observed off Benar Point, the Life-boat crew were immediately assembled and the Life-boat Oldham proceeded to the vessel, which proved to...
9th March. Rockets were reported, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £14 0.9. 6d.