Exercise turns into busy day for City of Plymouth Plymouth - South West Division Plymouth's new Arun class City of Plymouth took part in no less than seven rescues on Sunday, 22 May 1988, when a sudden increase in wind strength to around...
CRIES FOR HELP Poole, Dorset. At 10.45 p.m. on 1st May, 1964, cries for help were heard coming from the harbour from the direction of Stakes buoy. The Institution's rubber dinghy manned by the life-boat's motor mechanic and a member...
ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...
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Twin brothers, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I.) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, met aboard their lifeboats when Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF
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WHY PEOPLE SUPPORT THE LIFE-BOATS The principal reason why people support the Royal National Life-boat Institution is that it saves lives irrespective of nationality, colour or creed. The second most important reason is that the R.N.L.I,...
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Southern region grand draw 1983 raised a magnificent £25,300. The draw was made at Poole HQ on October 25 by BBC TV reporter Anne Dawson, and the first prize, a Ford Fiesta Popular car, was won by Rupert Thomas of Burghfield Common,... - View image in PDF
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Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
The Tamar class is the RNLI’s newest and most sophisticated all-weather lifeboat, and its roll out continues. This year, Ireland’s first Tamar arrives at Kilmore Quay. Bembridge and Shoreham Harbour are also on the 2010 Tamar list and, in...
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THE GALE OF THE 19th MAY, 1863.
To THE EDITOR.—SIR,—I am desirous to utilize this gale by a few words for future benefit.
No winds are more difficult to foretell accurately than north-easterly, because...
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On the night of the 30th December, signals of distress were seen burning from a vessel off this place.
The wind was blowing fresh from the East, and a heavy sea running. The Parsee life- boat put off and assisted, after ten...