The RNLI took on the running of Cowes Lifeboat Station on the Isle of Wight in 2008. Based in a small, temporary facility within Shepards Wharf Marina, Cowes lifeboat launched 41 times last year and rescued 49 people.
Now,...
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Saye Bay and Chateau a L'Etoc: typical Alderney coastline.. - View image in PDF
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The life-boat is the Arbroath boat. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 11TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 5.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane was down half a mile from the coastguard station, and that the crew had baled out. She was a Halifax.
Twenty-five minutes...
FEBRUARY 27TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £23 2s. 9d..
ABOUT 2.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, two boys, aged eight and eleven, who were in difficulties when swimming, began to shout for help.
They were then about 200 yards north- north-east of the Appledore...
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Jan. 11.—Voted the Silver Medal to Mr.
WILLIAM PENROSE, and the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum and framed, to his brothers Messrs. THOMAS and HENRY PENROSE for their very gallant but unsuccessful attempt to...
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The very nature of the RNLI means that hundreds of miles are clocked up in the name of training.
Crew and lifeguards travel to Poole to benefit from the unique facilities of The Lifeboat College (see pages 6 and 33 for more...
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