On the 5th August, the ship Empire Queen, of Dublin, was stranded during foggy weather on the south end of the Arldovv Bank. The life-boat Alfred and Ernest, sta- tioned at Courtown, went out, in reply to signals of distress, and at the...
Three overboard FOLLOWING reports of three men overboard from a motor boat off Bangor Harbour, Belfast Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Bangor lifeboat station at 1849 on July 21, 1987 and the station's D class inflatable...
In very wet and cold weather the Life-boat James Stevens No. 6 was engaged during the whole of the 18th March in assisting to save a vessel which had run on to a reef of rocks under Beachy Head. At 7.30 A.M. the vessel was sighted, and...
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(Below) Weymouth lifeboat, the 52' Barnett Frank Spiller Locke, leaving harbour at 1507 on Thursday, June 12, to help four canoeists reported in difficulty off Bowleaze Cove. The wind was gale force north-north-easterly, the sea rough... - View image in PDF
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Twelfth RNLI lottery winners BRUCE PARKER, a regular presenter of BBC South Today, came to Poole headquarters on April 30 to make the draw for the RNLl's twelfth national lottery. A Channel Islander who grew up on the Isle of Wight,...
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A NEW SETTING for the R.N.L.I.'s annual general meeting was the occasion for a major policy statement, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.G.B., D.S.O., took the opportunity of offering, to adapt an American political...
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Many voluntary workers with long associations with the R.N.L.I. can remember when they first became interested in the life-boat service. Certainly nowadays every effort is made in schools all over the country to interest children in the epic... - View image in PDF
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The Scarborough life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield which was built in 1958. A lifeboat station was first established there in 1801 -23 years before the Institution was founded.. - View image in PDF
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Injured and stranded on rocks at the bottom of a sheer cliff: for two fishermen there seemed to be no route to safety. But RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crew found one …
Thursday 6 August 2009 was more than a typical busy...
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