The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer 1973 NEWS HAS COME from France of the launching by the Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer of a new 15.5 m 'all seasons' lifeboat, Pierre Loti; a boat which cost over £100,000 to build...
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Open all Hours Nearly all of the Institution's 215 lifeboat stations held a special open day during the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, most of them opening on the Sunday, 28 May.
An estimated 65,000 people visited... - View image in PDF
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Ten new beaches will be watched over by RNLI lifeguards this year, making a total of 224 safer spots for your Summer.
The service covers top holiday hotspots in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Jersey, and...
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A Caithness fundraiser tells us what it’s like to be part of the RNLI family
What do you do?
I’m deputy chairman of the Wick RNLI Fundraising Branch. I’ve been involved for over a decade. Wick’s quite a small...
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You'd be amazed at how far around the world support for the RNLI reaches. Employees of BAe Systems, who live in Saudi Arabia, attend a club, The Cage, which has raised a staggering £16,000 for the RNLI over the last eight years..<... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
Mrs Beryl Robertson of Alfred Terrace Walton, Essex, helped by her mother Mrs Win Garratt, collected 150 Ib of stamps from friends and local shops during the past year realising £40 which she gave to the RNLI.
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AT 8.15 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station was told that a swimmer was in difficulties on the Southport side of the River Ribble. A fresh north-westerly gale was blowing,...
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Barmouth, Merionethshire.—Shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1951, the sailing boat Dorothy was seen to cap- size one and a half miles off Cric- cieth. She belonged to the Morfa Bychan Public Schools Camp...