Survivor from wrecked speedboat rescued from base of 35ft cliff Lough Swilly lifeboat crew members Bernard Devlin and Mark Porter have been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum following the...
SPITHEAD, TUESDAY, JUNE 28: When her Majesty The Queen, aboard HMY Britannia, reviewed the Fleet as part of the celebrations marking her Silver Jubilee, three lifeboats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution were proud to take their...
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Exercising with a helicopter from RAF Valley, the mountains of North Wales in the background.. - View image in PDF
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Tug escorted YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Wells lifeboat station at 1245 on Monday April 11, 1983, that Dockman, a 70ft ex-river tug which had been on passage from London to Newcastle but whose radar and compass...
A hardware firm that has put firm support behind the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) is on course to raise £80,000 this year.
Toolstation is the FRT’s sponsor, and staff have been boosting funding for the team’s...
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At about 3 A.M., on the 23rd November, the Life-boat Mincing Lane put off to the aid of a schooner which was reported to be showing signals southward of Montrose.
With great difficulty and danger the...
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
Popularity has grown steadily for the Petworth clay pigeon shoot and in the five years the competition has been held more than £1,500 has been amassed for the RNLI. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution,... - View image in PDF
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WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
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