(Above) The first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go to station, Ann Ritchie, is demonstrated to the principal guests after her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
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Civil servants around the UK are celebrating 150 years of fundraising for the RNLI. And they’re doing so in style, having funded their 53rd lifeboat: a brand new Shannon class due to be built for Wells, Norfolk, in 2021. The Lifeboat Fund is...
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SILVER and bronze medals for gallantry have been awarded at the Humber, Whitby, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight), Clacton-on-Sea, Blackpool, Lytham St.
Annes, Dover, Broughty Ferry, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Salcombe, Torbay,...
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(Below) Seaham lifeboat crew and branch chairman, G. Henderson (receiving cheque) took part in a sponsored walk which raised £244 for RNLI funds. The model lifeboat, made by Crew Member F. Aitkin in 1973, has been used at many... - View image in PDF
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Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of... - View image in PDF
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A great complement: in order to maintain adequate cover in the area. Great Yarmouth and Gorieston lifeboat station operates both a Trent class and Atlantic 21 lifeboat.
Picture Royil Bank o) Scotland/Hick Tomlmson.
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IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.
Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...
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IREI.ANDS LINKS with the RNLI are almost as old as the Institution itself and the tradition of lifesaving around its rugged coastline stretches back to the turn of the century.
Guarding the busy shipping lanes bringing...
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Lifeboat and crew arrived home in style on 2 August 2004, welcomed by huge crowds and a flotilla of 50 boats. Their first 'real1 shout was on 11 August.. - View image in PDF
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Stuart Roberts helmsman of Porthcawl inshore lifeboat, first joined the crew in July 1980.
Stuart, who is a local Police officer, was awarded the Institution's Silver Medal for o u t s t a n d i n g bravery when the... - View image in PDF
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