On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...
Barra Island: HRH Prince Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, presents a plat/ue to Coxswain John Macneil in recognition of the efforts to rescue the crew of Lone Dania made b Barra's 52ft Burnett lifeboat R. A. Colby Cuhhin No 3. With... - View image in PDF
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The fill/owing information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service in which it towed in the three Royal Nary inshore... - View image in PDF
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JULY 31ST. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 9.30 in the morning a message was received from the coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to a position thirteen miles southeast by east of Arbroath, in answer to a ship’s SOS. The weather was foggy...
STRONSAY, ORKNEY ISLANDS.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat Station at Stronsay in order to strengthen the Life-boat service in the Orkney Islands.
The new Life-boat is of the Watson type,...
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Storm Force Storm Force, the new RNLI membership scheme for everybody under 16, was launched at the London Boat Show on January 2 by Erkan Mustafa who plays Roland Browning and Simone Nylander who plays Janet St Clair of BBC Television's...
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LIFEGUARDS WORK WET SUMMER Despite the met Offi ce reporting the wettest may–July since records began, RnLi lifeguards in england were very much in demand. in particular, spring tides led to a number of mass rescues, one of which you can...
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the afternoon of the 9th September, 1938, a small boat carrying two men and a seven-year-old girl capsized about three-quarters of a mile off Shoreham beach. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a...
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