A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...
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Montrose, Angus.—17th December. An overdue fishing boat came in while the life-boat was out looking for her.— Rewards, £5 19*..
Above: Scon Findlater received an operations director's letter of thanks for his part in the rescue Picture Harnisft Campbell. - View image in PDF
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DEC. 30TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. An explosion had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..
Richard and Nicola Jeyes (below right) completed an Auto Endurance Challenge in June, which raised over £1,000 for Callington branch RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 26TH. - CROMARTY'. A vessel was sinking, but the survivors had been taken off by an Admiralty tug. - Rewards, £11 5s..
DIVE IN FOR A SPLASHING GREAT TIME RNLI supporters are usually too concerned with events on the sea's surface to wonder about whotjfalit be happening down below the waves.
Exploring the magical world fTenwnh the surface...
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A CHRISTMAS FAIR was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, lent by the City Council, on 24th November.
The fair was opened by the Countess of Warwick. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided, supported...
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ON page 379 appears the account of the rescue, on 7th September, by the motor life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, of a dinghy, with a man and woman on board her, which was being carried out to sea. Here is a description of the same service—as...
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Wading neck high TWO SMALL BOATS trying to enter Cullercoats Bay were seen at 1645 on Saturday April 14, 1979, by ILB Crew Member Christopher Blackman, aged 19, and his 16-year-old friend Jeffrey Storey.
It was a fine day...