Lifeboatmen save people and livestock from flooded towns In the early hours of 18 October 1990 the towns of Ballycastle and nearby Cushendall in Co. Antrim were badly flooded, and Red Bay lifeboat station and two of the Crew Members at...
PORT EYNON, SOUTH WALES.—On the 2nd February, during a thick fog, it was reported that a steamer's whistle had been heard in the direction of Helwick Sands. The Life-boat A Daughter'sOffering was launched at 12.35 P.M., and on...
On 17th April, 1969, Abbotsford County Secondary School for Boys, Ashford, Middlesex, held a sponsored walk on behalf of the R.N.L.I. and raised a record sum—over £1,250. Of the 460 children who took part, 450 completed the 20- mile...
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At a highly successful concert by Harrow Concert Band at Kodak Hall, Wealdstone, in September, the music played ranged from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Tchaikovsky.
Rayners Lane and Eastcote branches helped with the... - View image in PDF
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Surfer saved RNLI lifeguards battled adverse conditions on 3 July 2005 to save the life of a surfer at Tolcarne Bay in Cornwall. He had severe head injuries from having been repeatedly washed onto the rocks. Lifeguard Richie Mullin dived...
Lifesavers from around the world visited RNLI College in August for 2 weeks of intensive tuition on how to run an effective coastal rescue service.
Representatives from Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Mauritius, Philippines,...
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Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...
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During the morning, four of the crew of the minesweeper Port Rose, which was anchored two or three miles to the north of Sheringham, came ashore in a rowing boat. The weatherwas fine with a...
25 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1970 At the RNLJ's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards in 1970 the then Chairman, Admiral Woods, referred to the recent formation of the Yachtsman's Lifeboat Supporters Association -...
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THE Institution has received a gift of £4 from the chapel collections at the St. Dunstan's Training Centre at Ovingdean, Sussex. This is the train- ing centre for both men and women who have been blinded on war service..
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