Swanage, Dorset-At 8.50 p.m. on 2nd June, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that a youth was stranded on Ballard Cliff. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 9.11. It was one hour after low water. On reaching the area the life-boat assisted...
FISTRAL BEACH | 30 MAY
When a powerboat flipped during a ThunderCat race, its rider was briefly knocked out. Her lifejacket kept her afloat until lifeguards arrived and, suspecting a spinal injury,...
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JUST THE RECIPE TO HELP THE RNLI 150 Celebrities Reveal their Favourite Dishes • Mouth-watering ideas for cooks of all abilities • Starters, main courses, desserts, cakes and biscuits 1 Fun and practical recipes - from Roy Castle's...
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MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...
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This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF
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Shortly before midnight, on the 3rd April, in- formation reached the Coxswain of the Life-boat Eliza Avins, that a steamer was ashore on the west end of Plymouth Breakwater. The weather was fine, but it was considered advisable to send the...
JANUARY 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.10 in the morning, information was received from the coastguard that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in Douglas Bay about two hundred yards off the Crescent Hotel. The weather was stormy, with a...
The Humber, Yorkshire, and Skegness, Lincolnshire. — 31st December, 1937.
Flares had been seen from the Inner Dowsing Light-vessel, but a search revealed no sign of any vessel in need of help.—Rewards : The Humber,...
The Beauchamp Life-boat was again called out for service on the morning of the 14th October. The watchman having observed a light in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand, the coxswain, who had just arrived at the beach, looked through the...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
Patroness — HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Vice Patron— -His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
President — His GRACE THE DUKE OF...
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