For the hard-pressed citizens of 1940s Europe, the truth of the slogan ‘waste not, want not’ was proven every day. In 2010, the message is being embraced anew by the RNLI to help it meet its responsibilities and to stretch donations ever...
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The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, reports from the International Lifeboat Conference in UruguayA hundred or so delegates from 26 different countries gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the 17th International...
Category: Meetings
— Annual Meeting Report APACKED Central Hall, Westminster, heard Captain the Hon. V. M.
Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, report on 20th April, 1966, that never had the life-boat service, in all...
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On the 30th December the Tynemouth No. 1 life-boat, the Constance, went off, through a tremendous sea, in consequence of distress signals being shown from a large vessel, which proved to be the ship Lady Carter, of Liverpool. The wind was...
What's in a name? I was intrigued by the selection of proposed names put forward as alternatives to Shoreline Members (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer 1987, Page 170).
They mostly showed a certain degree of aptness or humour, but...
Category: Correspondence
Elsie has been an education volunteer in the north east of Scotland for 2 years
What’s your day job?
I used to work offshore as an engineer on oil rigs, but I’ve been called to the ministry so am currently studying for...
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Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
West Division Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital...
Category: Services
MAY 17TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, and a minesweeper which had seen the crash found wreckage, but no survivors were found.- Rewards, £16 5s. 6d.
(See Sheringham, “ Services by...
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Ballycotton, Co. Cork Baltimore, Co. Cork Barmouth, Merionethshire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire...
Category: Services