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G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e l i n e • S t o rm F o r c e Action stations As technology continually improves, so too does the RNLI's ability to save lives at sea.
But every improvement comes at a...
Category: Articles
Around the Coast
FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Marie Rose, Beatty, G.B.H., Red Herring, I'll Try and Bettsey
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 12 noon on 23rd April, 1967, when the life-boat Louise Stephens was at sea the coxswain noticed that conditions on the bar would be likely tocause difficulties for seven small boats fishing in the...
A French Trawler (1)
Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.
Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...
Samsoon
Difficult tow for Tyne in onshore Gale gusting to over 50 knotsThe Director of the the RNLI has written to Moelfre lifeboat station expressing his thanks 'for a fine service in adverse conditions' by the coxswain and crew of the...
Obituary
With deep regret we announce the following deaths: April Dr Robert Rees Prytherch, a lifelong supporter of the RNLI who had been honorary medical adviser at Criccieth since 1956 and chairman of the station branch for many years. He was...
Category: Obituaries
The Mersey Class Marine Engineer (Foreground) and the Aluminium Norwegian Norboat Class Pass the Delegates Aboard the Sailing Ship Christian Radich
The Mersey class Marine Engineer (foreground) and the aluminium Norwegian Norboat class pass the delegates aboard the sailing ship Christian Radich.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
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Category: Articles
Golden Charter
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Category: Advertisement
Gruelling Shift
Mallaig lifeboat crew endured a 10-hour shout in horrendous conditions to save the 1,300-tonne coaster Red Duchess off the Isle of Rum, a small island of the Inner Hebrides, on 2 November.
Coxswain Michael Ian Currie says:...
Category: Articles