Art can be a really personal and rewarding way to express your love of the coast. So we asked lifelong RNLI supporter and top artist Glyn Macey for his tips on creating maritime masterpieces
‘ When I was 12, our community...
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Dunbar’s Trent class all-weather lifeboat Sir Ronald Pechell Bt parted the ground chain of her moorings and was repeatedly thrown against rocks in ferocious conditions of up to storm force 10 in the early hours of Easter...
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WITH the conclusion of the Procurator Fiscal's enquiry, which was held at Kirkwall on 10th June, 1969, it is possible for the Institution to publish its own findings on the circumstances leading to the loss of the Longhope...
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Putting their best feet forward - members of the Wadebridge branch step out in style at the start of their sponsored walk, despite an unsettled forecast.. - View image in PDF
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Around 95% of our people are volunteers, generously giving up their time while juggling family life, work, hobbies and other commitments. The ways they help are as diverse as they are essential, so we asked four very different...
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Lifeboat stations around the coast are subject to immense wear and tear from the launch and recovery of lifeboats and exposure to the elements. If lifeboats are to remain operational their boathouses and slipways must, however, be kept in a...
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At 10.3 p.m. on 30th March, 1968, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Alice Bowater had a sick man aboard suffering from acute abdominal pain. The vessel was then about 120 miles east of Spurn head.
Arrangements were made...
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT. YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a convoy of...
THE memorial to the seventeen Life- boatmen of Rye Harbour—who lost their lives on 15& November, 1928, when the Life-boat, returning from service in a whole gale, capsized as she appeared to be coming into the harbour-mouth with a...
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On 24th. October, 1945, the St. Ives life-boat went to the help of the ketch "Minnie Flossie", of Bideford, and found her right in the surf with a man and woman clinging to her. The coxswain could see that there was not a moment to...
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