Volunteers Ian and Sue Bell have rather an unusual role with the RNLI – and have raised over £47,000 towards saving lives at sea
This active retired couple take care of the diverse range...
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This is what to do with your lifeboat after she has come out of service for the winter: push her for 12 miles along the road between Burry Port, Dyfed, and Loughor, pass a few pubs on the way and with the sponsorship collected in each pub... - View image in PDF
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Three of the fishing cobles belonging to Whitby were overtaken by severe weather on the 10th June, and as their return to port could only be accomplished with great risk, the No. 1 Lifeboat, Robert and Mary Ellis, was launched about 10 A.M.,...
Newbiggin, Northumberland - At 3.27 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, news was received that the sailing club rescue launch had broken an engine shaft while towing a dinghy out of difficulty near the Needle's Eye rocks. At 3.39 the life-boat...
Mass Capsize AT 3.11 p.m. on May 28 it was learnt that dinghies from the Shoreham, Sussex, yacht club were capsizing and theyacht club rescue craft did not seem able to cope with them, in particular one dinghy 100 yards off the harbour. The...
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—About 3.50 P.M.
on the 14th May the Coxswain's attention was drawn to a small boat which was apparently in distress about a mile from the shore. With promptness the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat were...
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 7.30 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, the motor cruiser Mandy was reported overdue from a fishing trip.
After further inquiries to see if the Mandy had put into another port, the life-boat Alary Ann Hepwonh...
Do you know the three big targets we’re working towards as a lifesaving charity? As our Chairman Charles Hunter-Pease explained at our AGM in May, we aim to bring our entire all-weather lifeboat fleet up to a speed of 25 knots by 2019,...
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Tug on rocks AN ENGINE breakdown just as she had cast off her tugs on her final trials resulted in the oil exploration vessel Oregis going aground at the entrance to the Tyne. It was 1530 on Sunday, March 10. Tynemouth honorary secretary was...
THE Institution has awarded to Coxswain Thomas Sinclair, of Aberdeen, a second-service clasp to the silver medal which he already holds, and special awards to the crew, for the rescue on 5th November last of two men of the crew of eight of...
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