ONE of the most original and successful efforts on behalf of the funds of the Institution was carried out at Bedford on 27th June. It was an historical pageant organised by the Bedford Rotary Club, and was followed by a military tattoo. The...
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The Liverpool class lifeboat Ti/lie Morrison Sheffield II - seen here in RNLI service at Bridlington - is now a tripper boat in New Zealand. Walter Baguley's letter (left) reminds us that she served as a lifeboat in Sumner, New Zealand,... - View image in PDF
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22 October 2011: Eastbourne all-weather lifeboat crew responded to the call for help from a cruiser with engine failure. She was drifting quickly and her crew suffering severe seasickness in the turbulent seas. The lifeboat towed her to...
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PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. —• A disaslrous shipwreck occurred on the Manacle rocks, near the Lizard, on thenight of the 14th October, involving the lamentable loss of 106 lives. The s.s.
Mohegan, of Hull, a large four-masted...
Views across a century With an eye and ear for history, (I) Paul Reed, Fred Hills and Richard Ovenden, crew members of Littlestoneon- Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat posed for a photograph which has a not altogether coincidental resemblance... - View image in PDF
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18 October: The Mumbles Just as preparations for the Mumbles Oyster Festival were taking place, a visitor spotted a windsurfer in difficulty half a mile out to sea. The volunteers launched their inshore lifeboat...
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DAVID WEBB, the Bournemouth Cherries football team player/coach and former centre-half for Orient, Southampton, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester and Derby football clubs, drew the RNLI's tenth national lottery at Poole HQ on...
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Newhaven: The Greek MV Georgios of Pireaus sent out a 'mayday' signal on the morning of Thursday January 13 reporting a severe list; she was about 14 miles south of Beachy Head. Winds from west north west were gusting up to near gale... - View image in PDF
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YACHT ON THE ROCKS When a small motor yacht grounded on Longnose Ledge off Kent on 19thJuly, 1971, Margate Coastguard reported at 12.34 a.m. that the vessel was seriously damaged and was in danger of sinking. The crew could be heard shouting...
Rescues by IRB's in August were carried out by the following stations: NORTH WEST Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.28 a.m. on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf bay. The IRB...
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