Best foot forward Hundreds of schools and businesses supported the RNLI's annual Save Our Soles day on Friday 27 January 2006.
From Sennen Cove to Shetland, from Larne to Lowestoft and from Beaumaris to Ballyglass,...
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IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...
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After last year’s success, the RNLI has again been named as the official charity partner for Cowes Week 2010.
The internationally famous sailing regatta has been staged each August since 1826 and attracts participants and...
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The RNLI's new dock and boat hoist came into use at the Poole depot in early June, enabling lifeboats to be lifted from the water and positioned anywhere in the yard for storage or inspection and work on underwater areas.. - View image in PDF
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The recent fish quay festival at North Shields was graced by the presence of old King Neptune! Dressed in his self-created green, seaweedy raiment, Bill Lodge collected £208 for the RNLI. (Photo courtesy The Gazette). - View image in PDF
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IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.
This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...
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ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 STORNOWAY'S NEW 52FT ARUN LIFEBOAT WHEN PRINCESS ALEXANDRA named the new Stornoway lifeboat on Thursday February 23 it was a doubly historic occasion for, almost 30 years before, her mother the Duchess of Kent,...
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Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 8, 9,11 and May 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 22, April 14 (twice), 20, 25, May 5 (twice) and 9 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: May 11 and 30 Aith, Shetland 52ft Barnett: May 9 Aldeburgh,...
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Weymouth, Dorset.—At 1.20 in the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned a wireless message from a steamer that the motor yacht Coila, of Plymouth, on passage to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was flying distress...