Meeting the need Every year there is a rise in the number calls for help received by the RNLI's volunteer crews. In 1994 lifeboats launched 6,156 times - itself a record - but just a year later the figure for 1995 stood at 7,312 launches...
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Cliff Rescue PEEL, ISLE OF MAN, honorary secretary was alerted at 2130 on Tuesday, June 3, by the Coastguard. A man was trapped on the cliff face 1J miles south east of Peel. He had slipped while on a bird watching expedition and slithered...
Calling all yachtsmen: A first-class insurance against disaster is to be well-prepared.
Experience counts above all, but a lot can be learned from good books, and there is no better list of titles on the subject than that...
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Ten years of fund raising by Ryburn ladies' guild was celebrated when a classic race night meeting was organised by the committee and made £700 in the process. To lend authenticity, five of the guild's members dressed up as... - View image in PDF
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(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post, outside Botchins the butchers in St John's Wood; now 80 years old, she has collected regularly since I960 and this year she brought in £26.49 in spile of biting winds. But... - View image in PDF
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SKERRIES | 8 SEPTEMBER
Four people needed our Skerries volunteers when their motorboat had electrical problems and they couldn’t start the engine. The RNLI crew launched just after 11am, quickly...
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Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...
Fire at sea: Both St Helier and St Peter Port lifeboats, the 44' Waveney Thomas James King and the 52' A run Sir William Arnold, launched on service on September 77, 7976, to go to the help of fishing vessel Mako, on fire 16 miles... - View image in PDF
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(Left) Burton-on-Trent branch raised £177 at its 1977 wine and cheese party, the fourth to be held at the home of Mr and Mrs F. R. Kerry. Behind the 'groaning board', the Kerry family (I.) with Mr and Mrs E. A Cooper, joint... - View image in PDF
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Fred Walkington (I.) and Brian Bevan. Fred Walkington joined Bridling ton lifeboat crew in 1965 and was appointed coxswain in 1975; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1979. Brian Bevan was a member of Bridlington lifeboat crew from 1967 to... - View image in PDF
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