Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Brian Williams, a Shoreline member, specialises in making scale miniature models of individual boats. His replicas include sailing barges and yachts and a/so lifeboats, a number of which have been ordered for presentation to serving or... - View image in PDF
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Contents RNLINews.
Volume L Number 497 Lifeboat Services.
Fraserhurgh: When a job needs doing, by Georgette Purches.
42 48 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOI.I.
Director and...
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Southend 60 years ago As it is October 1998 (date of letter), I thought readers may be interested in some pictures I took in October 1938! The photographs are of Southend lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No.3), in action.
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Aldeburgh's lifeboats are housed separately on the beach along the parallell Crag Path.
The 'A-frame' building to the right of picture below is the new 'Penza' boathouse which houses the Mersey class... - View image in PDF
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Keeping it in the family! Stephen Simmons, new recruit of Sheringham lifeboat crew, not only has all the skills required to be a lifeboatman but also has lifesaving in his blood - he joins his father, the helmsman of the lifeboat, and elder...
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 8.3 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1953, I the coastguard rang up to say that the | steam trawler River Lossie, of Aber- deen, with a crew of nine, had run on a submerged rock on Robbie Ramsay's Baa outside...
A Caithness fundraiser tells us what it’s like to be part of the RNLI family
What do you do?
I’m deputy chairman of the Wick RNLI Fundraising Branch. I’ve been involved for over a decade. Wick’s quite a small...
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