Members of the Blackpool lifeboat crew and ladies guild quite literally pushed the boat out on 10 September 1995, raising over £167 for RNLI funds.
An inflatable D class lifeboat was pushed along the promenade to North... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY DURING JANUARY life-boats were launched on service 45 times and rescued 54 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO GRIMSBY TRAWLER Bridlington, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1958, the...
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The RNLI Engineering Department is the winner of the inaugural Maritime Safety Award from the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and Lloyd’s Register.
The award recognises the ‘innovation and technical excellence’ of our...
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With the ruins of Flint Castle overlooking the proceedings, Eric Bulling handed D class lifeboat Marjorie Helen over to Anthony Oliver, deputy head of fundraising and marketing on 16 November.
This was Eric's second... - View image in PDF
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Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...
A raffle prize with a difference: MV Oahu, or at least the master of this ship, Captain Dennis Smith, decided, as part of his ship's Christmas and New Year celebrations at sea, to raffle his job for the day. The raffle raised £175... - View image in PDF
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SEA ANCHOR PUT ABOARD KEELBOAT Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the keelboat Courage intended to put into Scarborough harbour because of the severe weather...
Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...
Wolverhampton branch's souvenir and publicity caravan, splendidly converted from a mobile hot dog stall, made its first appearance last May when Ken Dodd and the Mayor of Wolverhampton opened the town's Fiesta from its... - View image in PDF
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Salcombe, Devon - At 1.50 p.m. on 14th July, 1968, the motor mechanic was informed that a yacht had capsized on the harbour bar. The lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings at 1.57 in a strong west south westerly wind and a...