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Fearless RNLI supporters jumped into the record books in June when they smashed the record for the most tandem skydives in one day.

On Saturday 14 June, 323 fundraisers around the UK jumped from a height of 3,048m, with 25...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has 138 active lifeboat stations in Britain. There are 67 Fordpowered lifeboats and Ford engines are being used exclusively in the re-engining programme. The basic unit in the new glass-reinforced...

Some years ago a Miss Maud Smith left a sum of money to the Institution so that a gift of £5, to be known as the 'Miss Maud Smith award for courage, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke', might be made each year to the...

The relationship between the RNLI and the Sea King helicopters of the RAF's Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre has proved vital in many rescue missions.

James Ferguson visited RAF Kinloss to find out more about...

Mr. D. A. Acland, of East Grinstead, Sir John Brocklebank, of Mold, Flintshire, and Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., of Burley, Hampshire, have accepted co-option as members of the Committee of Management of the Royal...

THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...

Central and Outer London.

BEXLEY HEATH.—Rummage sale, whist drive, and dance, attended by the Mayor and Mayoress, all arranged by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. The Guild has adopted the lifeboat crew at the Dungeness...

Although there was a damp and misty start to the day it did not deter about 5,000 people from joining in the fun at last autumn's annual Hartlepool harbour fete, which is organised by the local branch and its many friends. The highlight...