National appeal day The RNLI is launching a national appeal day to be held every year, beginning on 8 June 2005 - Save our Soles or SOS day.
Throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland, people at work, school or home will be...
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One man's courageA young man swept into the sea and crushed against rocks would surely have died were it not for the brave actions of lifeboatman Fergal Walsh. With no regard for the risk to himself he plunged into the sea to save the...
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CRESSWEL NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 30th April while the wind was blowing half a gale from S.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the 8.8.
Strathcarron, of Glasgow, bound from Danzic for Philadelphia, via the Tyne,...
IN the year 1824 was established, in the City of London, mainly through the benevolent and untiring exertions of the late Sir WM. HILLARY, Bart., Mr. THOMAS WILSON, M.P., and others, the "ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOE THE PRESERVATION...
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NEW BRIGHTON.—At 2.30 P.M., on the 19th July, intelligence having been received that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the No. 2 Life-boat Henry Richardson put off, in tow of the steam-tugBrilliant Star, and found the three-masted...
A MOST important adjunct to a coast life- boat is a carriage. It is not sufficient that the boat herself be of a superior description, capable of contending safely and successfully with that element in which her work has to be performed,...
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WELLS, NORFOLK.—A new life-boat establishment has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Wells, on the coast of Norfolk. There was a considerable length of coast in the district without a life-boat, and as vessels frequently...
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WHEN A LIFEBOAT reaches a vessel in distress in gale or storm force winds she has come to the heart of her problem; how best the people on board may be brought safely to shore. Can she go alongside and take off the survivors. Or is there a...
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THE following correspondence has taken place between the Home Office and the Na-tional Life-boat Institution on the subject of the number of Lives Saved by its Life- boats during the year 1880, and also the number saved through its...
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Far left - Stan shows off his muscles at Staithes Harbour fete.. - View image in PDF
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