(Right) On Eiswette's bridge deck, Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham (second from r), director RNLI, greets (I to r) Capt Uwe Klein, chief SAR department, Carl Max Vater, vice-chairman, and Dr Bernd Anders, chief PR department.... - View image in PDF
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One of the most frequent requests to the RNLI's PR department is 'Can you arrange a trip on a lifeboat?' Sadly, the answer has to be 'no', since lifeboats are emergency vessels and need to be in constant readiness to... - View image in PDF
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John Noakes and Peter Purves, aboard Blue Peter II, with Lieut.-Colonel V. J. C. Cooper, honorary secretary Beaumaris (second from left), Coxswain William Pritchard, crew and helpers.. - View image in PDF
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Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services...
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Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...
IN the Yarmouth Mercury on 5th March last, under the heading " Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat's Fame in Australia," a letter was published "which had been received by a Gorleston man from his son in Australia. He...
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— At about noon on the llth January, during a whole S.E. gale with very heavy squalls, and a rough sea, it was reported to Coxswain McEachran that a fishing- boat on a lee shore in the Loch had broken adrift, collided with and badly damaged...
ON 18th October the Motor Life-boat at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, saved a life, by acting as an ambulance. A girl of fifteen had developed acute appendicitis and an immediate operation was necessary. There is no hospital in the Isles...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.15 in the morning of the 10th of December, 1951, the coastguard reported that the local Pilot Me II was approaching the harbour. The sea was rough and a strong northerly wind was blowing. At 9.25 the...
At J1.15 P.M. on. the 30th June it was reported that two fishermen, who had gone out in a small boat fitted with a motor to haul their lobster pots, had not re- turned. The motor life-boat Cunard put out at 11.25 P.M. and went to the...