Every lifeboat station and lifeguard beach is unique and each has different requirements if its volunteers are to successfully save lives at sea. Community fundraising and regional appeals can be tailored to meet these specific needs and...
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PLUS A VINTA 370 SAILBOARD /TO BE WON, THE ALL-NEW RENAULT 5 5-DQOR WIN THE RENAULT 5 r COMPETITION FORM Shoreline DRIVE THIS IS your chance to drive away with the all-new 5 door Renault 5 TL (kindly donated by Renault UK Ltd) and help boost...
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Last June the district engineer, district surveyor and the motor mechanic were in the boarding boat at New Brighton when she was hanging in the davits on the landing-stage. One of the davit-chains gave way, the stern dropped, and all three...
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(Left, below) To commemorate a favourite customer, Albert Howes, the Talbot Hotel at Ripley, Surrey, has raised £3,000 to buy a radar for a lifeboat. The target was finally reached on Easter Saturday when a publicity D class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.
Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS. K.G.
Vice-Patrons— The Most Hon. the MARQUIS OF Ripon, K.O.
The Right Hon. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,...
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THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Whitby No. 1 life- boat leaving harbour on the 15th of...
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Lowestoft: On Monday May 14, 1984, a 17ft motor cruiser, with one man on board, suffered engine failure off Pakefield Beach; she was driven ashore and on to a groyne by the fresh north-easterly breeze. Reaching the cruiser at 1744,... - View image in PDF
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During the evening of the llth August a breeze sprang up very suddenly from the S.S.W., and continued to freshen until there was a fresh gale. At 11 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the ketch James, of Cardigan, on...
Early in the war the building of motor life-boats almost ceased, because of the demands on the shipyards made by the fighting services. During the five years and eight months of war, 17 new life-boats were sent to the coast. In normal years...
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Thanks to Alderney...
The RNLI has always been our favourite charity. During a Channel crossing on 19 June in our 29ft yacht we had good reason to be grateful for the support we and countless others have given the...
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