Pushing the boat out: Members of the running team based at the Green Man, Stamford pushed a 14ft dinghy, dressed as a lifeboat, around the Stamford Festival half marathon and raised £1,000 for the Stamford and District branch. Later in... - View image in PDF
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Plymouth lifeboatman, Fred Jackson, visited RNAS Culdrose in March to say thank you to the team who airlifted him to Derriford Hospital during a rescue last year.. - View image in PDF
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MARCH 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
When the small fishing boats Alex and Gratitude were seen making for home, a fresh east-north-east wind was blowing and heavy seas were breaking across the harbour entrance, so the motor...
THE District Organizing Secretary in the Midlands recently visited the school at Alderwasley, in Derbyshire, to present a certificate won by a pupil of the school in this year's essay competition ; it is a remote village of a few hundred...
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TORBAY, Tuesday June 16, 1987: Brixham Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1515 that a small speedboat had run aground off Thatcher Rock and that one of its four occupants had injured her ankle jumping... - View image in PDF
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Everyone loves a cupcake, and selling a tasty treat in aid of the RNLI has always been a popular way of raising funds. We asked TV chefs The Hairy Bikers for a recipe that isn’t too stodgy (we all need room for a mince pie or...
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16 October 2011: RNLI lifeguards on Perranporth Beach, Cornwall, were called to help three surfers stranded in 1½m surf with a heavy backwash from nearby cliffs. Lifeguard Adam Taylor says: ‘We made our way...
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MARCH 31ST. - GALWAY BAY. As a matter of grave urgency the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take two of his patients to the mainland for immediate operations. The weather was fine, with a light south-west wind and a...
The Duke of Atholl, a Deputy Chairman of the RNLI, called at three lifeboat stations, Skegness, Withernsea and Humber, and met many voluntary fund raisers when he visited the North East in March. On his tour, starting from district HQ and... - View image in PDF
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It was the last Annual General Meeting for our Chairman, but the event was also a day of firsts as RNLI supporters and staff came together at a new venue
On 19 May, after 12 years at the Barbican in London, the AGM came...
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