We ask the questions RNLI Lifeboat stations throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland throw open their doors to the public this summer. Visitors will be able to speak to the crews, see the lifeboats and get a taste of the unique atmosphere...
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At 1.15 A.M. on the 23rd August the coxswain was told by the coastguard that a small vessel was burning distress signals about one mile N.E. of Lade coastguard station, A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a choppy sea, and thick rain...
The last meeting between the Duke of Kent, President of the KNLIfrom 1936, and the lifeboat service was at Plymouth Guildhall on July 11, 1942, just seven weeks before his death in an air accident.. - View image in PDF
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Above: Duncan Christie with the D class RJM. - View image in PDF
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Littlestone - Atlantic 21 Lady Dart and Long Life II Littlestone's latest Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable, Lady Dart and Long Life II, was named and dedicated at a ceremony at the town's lifeboat station on 6 July...
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Holyheud: The Duke of Kent, accompanied by Mr G. M. Burnell, station honorary secretary, meets crew members' wives and children . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of J. C. Davies. - View image in PDF
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Aberdovery, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 3,10,15,18,19 (twice), 28 and September 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 11, 14, 15, 16, 26, 27, September 1 (twice), 4,7,11,19 and 28 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: August 3, 6, 7, 13,19...
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South East Division Off Selsey Bill A YACHT AGROUND in the Looe Channel and needing help was reported by Solent Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 1910 on Friday September 9, 1983. Maroons were fired and at...
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MONTROSE.—At about 9.30 A.M. on 27th January a smack was seen turning towards the river, and when a little way from Scurdyness Lighthouse she missed stays and drifted on to the Annat Bank.
The No. 1 Life-boat Robert...
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...