Do you know the three big targets we’re working towards as a lifesaving charity? As our Chairman Charles Hunter-Pease explained at our AGM in May, we aim to bring our entire all-weather lifeboat fleet up to a speed of 25 knots by 2019,...
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THE ADVENT OF NORTH SEA OIL has wrought tremendous changes in almost every sphere among the various areas involved. None has been so significantly affected as that of the sea rescue services, this being amply reflected in the RNLI's...
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1954, shipping agents reported that the master of the S.S. Ocean Coast, of Liverpool, which was anchored in Yarmouth Roads, was seriously ill and needed a doctor. No...
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An excellent ser- vice was performed by the No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1 on the 18-19th January, resulting in four lives being saved. About 7.30 P.M., whilst a whole gale from W.N.W. was raging, signals of distress were seen from a...
" YOUR Committee cannot conclude their report without recording their opinion that the thanks of the whole community are due to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the energy and good management (often in very...
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— The Whitby motor fishing boat Pilot Me was unable to make her home port on the morning of 8th April owing to a moderate northerly gale and very rough sea. She decided to run for Scarborough, and this information having been passed on by...
Dedicated lifeboat supporter Eileen Whittingham from Solihull raised more than £1,100 for the RNLI when she walked the length of the causeway to Corbiere Lighthouse on Jersey.
What made the walk so special is that... - View image in PDF
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The RNLI held its Annual Presentation of Awards in London’s Barbican on 14 May, with HRH The Duke of Kent as guest of honour in his 40th year as the charity’s President.
The Duke presented Lifeguards Chris Boundy and John...
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