Shortly before 9 A.M. on the 8th January a telephone message was received from the Maplin Lighthouse, stating that there was a barge ashore on the "Burrows" with a signal of distress in her rigging. There was a strong W.N.W. gale...
Having given almost two-thirds of a century to the RNLI between them, three Scottish volunteers are retiring this year. After clocking up 14 years (and 6,625 nautical miles), Peter ‘Ped’ McKinnon is retiring from his role as full-time...
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OCTOBER 8TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 8.25 at night the coastguard reported that the motor boat Secret, of Littlehaven, with three on board, had left Littlehaven in the morning for Milford Haven and had not arrived. A second message...
To Mr. GEORGE COCKSHOTT, Honorary Secre- tary of the Southport Branch, a Gold Pendant and a Kecord of Thanks, in recog- nition of his long services in connexion with the Life-boat Station at Southport, which has now been closed.
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A TABLET has been placed on the side of the life-boathouse at Walmer, Kent, commemorating the Walmer luggers which were, in the words of the Institution's honorary secretary at Walmer, " the cradle of the life-boat- men " of...
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Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
Words: Anna Burn
Photos: RNLI/(Harrison Bates, Nigel Millard, Neal Somerville)
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NOVEMBER MEETING INCHCOLM ISLAND, FIFESHIRE. On the evening of the 15th of July, 1945, five men and women of the Services went out on pleasure in a naval dinghy intending to sail from Aberdour to Inchcolm. They started in calm weather, but...
Category: Services
ARRANGEMENTS are now well under way for a Midnight Matinee at the Victoria Palace, London, on Friday, March 8.
The committee responsible is working under the chairmanship of Lady Aitken.
By the time you...
Category: Committee
Lymington took just one month to raise £760 to pay for a pair of propellers for the new Arun lifeboat being built for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. On December 14, two cheques, each for £380, one from the branch and one from the... - View image in PDF
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 9.5 on the evening of the 13th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Horseshoe Bay and had been seriously injured. At 9.11, when the life- boat Jesse...