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Category: Advertisement
Lt Cdr Brian Miles Director of the Rnli (Left) and the Managing Director of Laing's Trevor Berry
Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI, (left) and the managing director of Laing's, Trevor Berry, lay the highest section of concrete to mark the topping-out of the RNLI's new headquarters building. (Photo Southern Newspapers).<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ned' the Barge Horse and Mr E Wrangles Who Was Sponsored By 140 People for £137 Were Two of the Participants In the Hertford Walk In Aid of the RNLI Along The
'Ned', the barge horse, and Mr. E. Wrangles, who was sponsored by 140 people for £137, were two of the participants in the Hertford walk in aid of the R.N.L.I, along the towpath of the River Lee from Hertford to Dobbs Weir last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boats
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from...
Category: Services
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
Launches on service from 1st September to 3oth November, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 p.m. on ist September,...
Category: Services
An R.A.F. Aerial Life-Boat
MAY 12TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
An R.A.F. aerial life-boat was adrift and flying a distress signal, but an air-sea rescue launch took her in tow. - Rewards, £9 8s..
A Dinghy
Skin divers trapped AN INFLATABLE DINGHY with four people on board, sighted drifting close inshore north of Fleshwick Bay, was reported to Port Erin deputy launching authority by Ramsey Coastguard, Isle of Man, at 1614 on Tuesday March...
A French Motor Torpedo Boat
MAY 28TH. - WALMER, KENT. A French motor torpedo boat had struck a submerged wreck, but a naval drifter had gone to her help. - Rewards, £19 7s..
Scottish Lifeboat Council Annual General Meeting
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in The Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh, on May 23 this year. Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council, was in the chair at the...
Category: Meetings