Arranmore, August 30, 1986: This station, off the north west coast of Ireland, can accurately be described as one of the outposts of the RNLI. The picturesque island is now linked to the mainland by a regular ferry service and so it was... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 28TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. At seven in the morning the Staithes fishing fleet put to sea in moderate weather, but by ten o’clock a gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and at 10.15 the motor life-boat Robert Patton - The...
1,330 lives saved in 1984 Lifeboats launched 3,613 times and saved 1,330 lives in 1984, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported at the Institution's Annual Meeting in London on May 21.
Over £20 million...
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WITHENOUGHOFTHESE WECAN BUILD UPAFLOAT AND YOU COULD WIN ANEW VOLVO Volvo and the RNLI have, over the past eight years, together raised over £4 million to help save lives at sea.
To date, three lifeboats have been...
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NEW LIFEGUARD AND SWIM SAFE LOCATIONS FOR A SAFER SUMMER
RNLI lifeguards will patrol eight new beaches this summer, including Camber Sands....
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Missing divers found It was a family affair at Lyme Regis earlier this year when a lifeboat crew member's father and brother were instrumental in saving the lives of two divers.
On the afternoon of 9 May, three skin...
(Below) Coxswain Dermot Walsh of Valentia was awarded the silver medal for the rescue of ten men from the motor vessel Oranmore in 1970.. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Bartley Mullin of Galway Bay (I) with Coleman Hernon, former coxswain and now honorary secretary. Both were awarded the bronze medal for the rescue of eight men from a Dutch coaster in 1962.. - View image in PDF
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V_X)HtCIltS Notes of the Quarter 290 Lifeboat Services 292 Volume XLVIII Number 486 Lifeboat Services, June and July 1983 299 Talking with Dr Sydney Peace of Orkney, by Joan Davies 300 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL 15ft 6in D class inflatable...
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Freighter sinks CROSSMA, the French Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Joburg, informed St Peter Port Radio, Guernsey, at 0104 on Tuesday January 24, 1984, that the Liberian freighter Radiant Med had developed a serious list 13 miles north west...