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A Speed Boat
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 Thames Coastguards of a...
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"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf' says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
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Marathon man
Out with the antiseptic and sticking plasters. GP and RNLI Medical Adviser Dr JJ Green talks about how he caught the marathon bug …
‘It’s a disease,’ Dr JJ Green quips as he prepares for the 2010 Virgin London Marathon....
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
BUDEHAVEN, CORNWALL.—On the 31st of August, 1863, a large ship without masts, which afterwards proved to be the Conflict, an old sloop of war, of 2,000 tons, bound from Plymouth to Bristol, in ballast, to be broken up, was observed in tow of...
Category: Services
List of the Medals of the Institution Voted to Naval and Marine Officers
IN a previous issue we promised to publish a supplemental list of the Gold and Silver Medals voted by the rOYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to officers of the Royal Navy and Marines, in acknowledge- ment of their gallant deeds in Saving...
Category: Medals
No Life-Boat There!
BY NICHOLAS MICHELL, ESQ.* (With Ittuslration.') IT was a wild and lonely shore, Girded by rocks; the sea-bird's cry, The billow's everlasting roar, The tempest, howling through the sky, The only sounds—as though Despair Sat...
Category: Poetry
Mr. H. B. Fleet
The death occurred early in June of Mr. H. B.
Fleet who was the well known honorary secretary of the Margate, Kent, life-boat station. During his long public service—he spent many years in the Police—Mr. Fleet devoted...
Category: Obituaries
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"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf", says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
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RNLI Rescue Map
RESCUE MAP RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland as of August 2005.
See page 42 for news of the first Tamar class lifeboat to come on station.
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