Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the...
Following the ceremony - Brian Sevan takes HRH The Duke of Ken! aboard the new lifeboat. Photo. Roger Jack. - View image in PDF
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Shaping the future It feels Like a long time since the RNLI announced it intended to build a training college in Poole. Construction started in 2002 and since then hundreds of men and women have laboured to make The Lifeboat College vision a...
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FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE WHEN the 25-foot fishing vessel Bounty of Jersey, G.I., with four men aboard, was reported in difficulties at 8.21 p.m. on 24th July, 1970,* off the Rigdon Bank in St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, the St. Helier life-boat...
Thursday, March 2, 1854. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the former Meeting, and those of the Finance, Wreck and Reward, and the Life-boat Sub-Committees.
Elected...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL illuminated so many aspects of our life with the majesty of his words that it is hardly surprising that some of the most stirring sentences ever spoken about a life-boat were uttered by him.
The...
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FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALKS.—A small screw steamer and a schooner had been at anchor in Fishguard roadstead for some days, being unable to go round St. David's Head, owing to the strong westerly winds.
On the night of the...
ON llth May the centenary was cele- brated at Douglas, Isle of Man, of the Tower of Refuge on St. Mary's Rock, in the middle of the Bay. This tower was built by Sir William Hillary, the founder of the Institution, and the first stone was...
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• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...
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. . . and talks with Mrs Winstone of Sheffield, donor of the lifeboat. With them (I.) is John Atterton, deputy director of the Institution. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Liverpool Daily Post'. - View image in PDF
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