coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...
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The Medallists: (I. to r.) Matt Lethbridge, BEM, Antony Warnock, Trevor England, David Bliss, Thomas Cocking, Senior, Thomas Walsh, Mrs Dorothy Pengilly who received the medal awarded to the late Eric Pengilly, John Devereux, John Petit,... - View image in PDF
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 26th day of March, 1887, The Right Honourable Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, M.P., First Lord of the...
Category: Annual Reports
At the time this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is published the Mersey, the RNLI's latest class of lifeboat, will be on show to the public at the London Boat Show in Earls Court.
in this article Keith Thatcher, one of the...
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ASHORE IN FOG Dunbar, East Lothian. At 5.30 p.m.
on 3rd September, 1964, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Star of Faith was ashore on the east sands in thick...
New Year Honours Among the awards in the New Year Honours list were: BEM David W. Evans, coxswain of New Quay (Dyfed) lifeboat. Coxswain Evans joined the lifeboat crew in 1958, was bowman from 1962 to 1964, second coxswain until 1965 when he...
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WE publish on page 17 a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th September, 1929.
The total sum raised by these twenty Branches was...
Category: Branches