Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.20 a.m. on I3th February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish ship Habet had requested the help of the life-boat to take a sick man off as he required medical attention. The...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 12.45 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1952, the Clacton coastguard saw a man in difficulties in the sea.
He was one of a party of four men in a rowing boat. An oar had been lost...
On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...
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Taking the strain! With the help of the local Brownie pack Mr John Hunt, a senior railwayman at Lingfield, has raised over £1,500 for the RNLI during the past three years by supplying refreshments at the station, mainly on race days at... - View image in PDF
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A 2-year interactive exhibition on search and rescue has opened at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth.
We’ve loaned the museum a B class lifeboat, a lifeguard all-terrain vehicle and a range of collection...
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What’s the best way to beat the January blues? Why, to hit the January sales of course!
If you shop online, use Give as you Live and the retailer will make a donation of up to 5% of the purchase price to the RNLI. It costs...
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IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...
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The Cromer Lifeboats by Bob Malster and Peter Stibbons (Poppyland Publishing), available from Cromer RNLI honorary secretary, 33 Hillside, Cromer, Norfolk, for £1.20 plus 25p post and packing, is the third edition of booklets about the...
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