On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Ramsey - Mersey 12-14 (ON 1171) Ann and James Ritchie on 12 July 1991.
North Sunderland - Mersey 12-16 (ON 1173) Grace Darling on...
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Congregation gathered round model of lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse after the service of thanksgiving at Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth. Photograph by courtesy of 'Western Morning News'. - View image in PDF
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ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
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WHEN the maritime character of this country is considered, and the liability of a large portion of its population to be at one time or another exposed to the " dangers of the seas," surprise maybe well excited at the facts—that but...
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AT 11.30 on the morning of the 16th January, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station, Father Joseph McNamara, was told by the Galway harbour master that the coaster June of Rotterdam was aground on the reefs off...
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Happy new year! With fresh new (RNLI Shop) diaries in hand, we’re making plans for the year ahead. And 2019 is shaping up to be a busy one.
So what happens when an RNLI coxswain or a mechanic needs to plan some well-earned...
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west...
Naming ceremoniesAlec and Christina Dykes atTorbay More than 350 guests attended the ceremony for Devon's first Severn class lifeboat. The lifeboat was received on behalf of the RNLI by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE RD and named by Torbay...
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