Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboat launched 3,745 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,491 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).
Over 35 per cent of all services carried...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the llth of July, 1953, the harbour master told the life-boat station that a man had reported that his two sons had left Douglas in an eighteen-feet yacht.
They...
Right: The crew out on the lough Picture: Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services A variety of services from around the country The Annual Meetings '99 The Chairman reports on a very successful year and the nationwide launch of SEA Check, plus...
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The life-boat formerly placed at Sizewell- Gap, on the east coast of Suffolk, has been for the present transferred to Aldborough, five miles farther south, as a more serviceable spot, and where it can be...
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At 5 A.M. on the 26th August the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mayheie Medwin received in- formation that there were no tidings of a small fishing yawl, the Shamrock, of Peel, which left Harbour at 10.30 A.M.
the previous day....
OCTOBER 25TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane’s dinghy was reported to have been seen, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 8s..
OCTOBER 4TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £24 17s..
APRIL 17TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea in flames, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £6 14s. 6d..
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £3 14s. 6d..