HM COASTGUARD are to move their headquarters from London to Poole following the move already made by the RNLI. A new central search and rescue information room will be established at the new Coastguard headquarters. These moves were...
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500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
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VHP transmitter/receivers are now very compact and can be fitted in boats as small as the RNLI's D class inflatables. This photograph of the first Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable clearly shows the aerial mounted on the mast aft - as high as... - View image in PDF
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CAPTAIN A. G. COLE, R.N.R., honorary secretary of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat station from 1934 to 1952, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List of 1953.He was awarded the...
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A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
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On the 18th Jan. intelligence was received at the Isle of Whithorn that a large threes-masted vessel was at anchor in Luce Bay, in a position of some peril. The Charlie Peek Life-boat was thereupon quickly launched through a heavy sea, and,...
N EWS P O I N T There coutd only be one topic for Newspoint in this issue - the remarkable service by the Lerwick lifeboat to Green Lily, which led to the award of the first Gold Medal for 16 years to her coxswain and a further five Bronze...
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