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LIFEBOAT STAYS WITH CASUALTY FOR MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds Whitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels...
Category: Services
Classifieds
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Just In Case:
Just in case: a happy Tony Hunter (below right) the RNLI's chief buyer, stores, receives a case of brandv from David Shepherd, brand manager for Martell Cognac, a bottle of which is carried on all large lifeboats. The cognac has been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duke Senior
Anglers landed THE FISHING VESSEL Duke Senior appeared to be in difficulties near the entrance to Whitstable harbour just after midday on Sunday January 19, 1986. There were a number of people on board, thought to be anglers, and the boat...
On distant shores ...
The golden sands of The Gambia wasn’t a place where proud RNLI supporter Robert Painter expected to find lifeguards flying our flag …
'My wife and I have recently returned from The Gambia...
Category: Articles
George and Valentine and Noach I.
RAMSGATE.—On the 12th November, signals were shown by vessels ashore in Pegwell Bay. The Life-boat which had been temporarily placed on this station in lien of the Bradford, which had been rendered unfit for further service by collision on...
Right: One Man Takes One Week to Inversion-Proof One Engine
Right: One man takes one week to inversion-proof one engine.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Southwold:
Southwold: The only way to christen an Atlantic 21 inflatable lifeboat is to take the cork out of the bottle. Senior Helmsman Roger Trigg performs the task after, on a wet Wednesday August 7, 1985, the station's new lifeboat was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wales Community News
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI/(Penarth, Porthdinllaen, Norma Stockford, Vicky Walmsley-Williams, Charlie Williams)
Welcome to your community news for Wales. For all the latest from where you are, head to...
Category: Articles
Trojan
The ketch Trojan, of Jersey, bound from London to Morlaix, Brittany, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 14th July soon after 2 A.M. The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched in response to signals, and on reaching the ketch the...