What’s it like to take a lifeboat through stormy seas while saving supporters from the muddy waters of legalese? Solicitor and former Coxswain John Stewart explains
‘I’m adjusting well but want to get used to being away...
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The Hon. George Coiville, deputy chairman of the committee of management of the Institution, died on September igth at the age of 76. For 37 years he had been actively associated with the Lite-boat Service. He was elected a member of the...
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Lifeboats Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 536 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: JON JONES Advertisement Manager: JOHN...
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Capt Brian Atkinson Aberdeen Hon Secretary. - View image in PDF
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5. Aberdeen's Bon Accord No,1 North Country class lifeboat shares its name with the station's current Severn class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Weston-super-Mare: The lifeboat people of Weston-super-Mare met at Knightstone Causeway on Saturday August 13 for the naming ceremony of the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat funded by an appeal launched to mark the centenary of... - View image in PDF
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A new building, 150 years of lifesaving and the naming of a lifeboat: all historic milestones celebrated at Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station, Gwynedd, in the Autumn.
BBC Broadcaster David Dimbleby was guest of honour at the...
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On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...
On the even- ing of 24th February, the smack Bri- tannia, of Belfast, being observed riding heavily to her anchors, in an exposed position, during a strong gale from N.E., with the night coming on, the Life-boat John Turner-Turner was...
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Talacre, of Beaumaris, bound from Conway forLarne with a cargo of slates, the Lifeboat John Monk put off at 8.15 A.M., in a strong W. breeze and a heavy sea, on the...