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Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 508 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...
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Atlantic's engines swamped as she tries to rescue trapped lifeguard Conditions were so bad on the East Coast of Britain on 29 August that Cullercoats' Atlantic 21 was involved in a medal-winning service within the confines of the...
From the Director
Brian Miles CBE looks back on an eventful 1995 1995 proved to be yet another busy and eventful twelve months for everyone involved with the RNLI.
A highlight had to be the 17th Conference of the International Lifeboat...
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William Martin
Dur- ing a strong N.N.W. gale and rough sea on 6th January, signals of distress were observed from a vessel about eight miles south-east of St. TudwalPs Light- house. The Life-boat Margaret Platt of Stalybridge was launched at 4.15...
Crescent Brand
BARGE WAS TOWED At 2.30 p.m. on 8th November, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a boat had fired a red flare while in a choppy sea on the Outer Carrs. At 2.40, three hours before high water, the lifeboat Richard Ashley was...
A Sailboard
Exhausted windsurfer A WINDSURFER had got into difficulties 300 feet off Morecambe stone jetty on the afternoon of Tuesday August 20, 1985. He was spotted from the promenade by a passer-by who immediately rang Liverpool coastguard. By 1420...
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
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Richard Pearce,
Richard Pearce, Silver medal winning helmsman of Brighton lifeboat, certainly knows all about the serious (and often hazardous) side of lifeboat work - but what about those incidents that Richard couldn't help remembering without a smile... - View image in PDF
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