Some recent publications reviewed Mumbles Lifeboat by Carl Smith, published by Sou'wester Books at £3.50 ISBN 09515281 06 The history of the Mumbles lifeboat station is a long and gallant one, and the author has captured both the...
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Operational changes in North East EnglandEvery five years each stretch of the UK and Irish coastlines undergoes a Coast Review. Senior RNLI operational personnel and trustees visit the lifeboat stations and assess whether the right class,...
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THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.
Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...
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4 CUT OFF BY TIDE: 34 TEENS
DOVER/WALMER | 16 JUNE
In a widely publicised rescue, lifeboat crews from Dover and Walmer helped save 34 teenagers and two adults, stranded at the bottom of the cliffs. The group were on a...
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RNLI lifeguards are now on duty in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire. Liz Cook reports on the charity’s drive to put life first on ever more beaches
2007was a breakthrough year for the RNLI. Its lifeguarding service, already...
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The half-pence scheme My grandad and nan have been saving half-pennies for the lifeboat service for 28 years. Of course they receive a receipt for what they hand in but my brother Paul and I feel sure they would love to see a few words of...
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BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
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EDINBURGH'S PERMANENT LIFEBOAT SHOP, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN 'IN BUSINESS' FOR TEN YEARS by Joyce Dunford MANY ARE THE WAYS of raising money for the RNLI, but one of the most unusual is the Edinburgh shop, rightly named 'The Lucky...
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Seventy years ago, St Ives in Cornwall lost seven men to the sea. Their lives are some of the many celebrated by the new RNLI memorial sculpture in Poole
Present-day St Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking (53) is the great...
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