EASTBOURNE.—The Life-boat on this Station has been exchanged for a new boat, provided by some friends of the Institution at Manchester, through J. F.
MILNE, Esq. At their request it is named the William and Mary. It is 34...
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NORTH SUNDERLAND. — The fishingcobles Morning Star and Mary and Dan, of North Snnderland, were overtaken by a heavy sea while fishing on the 8th January, and, as they were in danger, the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 1.15 P.M., and...
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
Peak performance: On the longest day in June last year Richard Price, a new crew member at Fleetwood lifeboat station, led a team of 36 people up to Scotland for the start of a three peak marathon. The team climbed Ben Nevis, (some of them... - View image in PDF
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Stranded under cliffs BRIXHAM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Torbay lifeboat station at 1431 on Monday, August 23, 1976, that survivors from a wrecked speedboat were stranded on a beach at Forest Cove under overhanging...
Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
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Stuck between high cliffs and high seasFowey Lifeboats launched no fewer than 73 times last year - but few shouts were as dramatic as the one that led to the rescue of a family stranded on a nearby beach, fearing for their lives A camping...
cLose up meet the family Building a strong and happy family can be a tough task for anyone but this is exactly what The Lifeboat College is attempting to do for the RNLI. Four members of this charity ‘family’ tell Liz Cook and Carol...
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NEW MLA EUROPEAN TRUST Top UK managers now go into Europe Stock markets throughout Europe have been booming - and look set to continue.
The winds of change have blown away old attitudes and restrictions. A renaissance in...
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The Life-boat journal was first published at a time of immense change for the Institution. In an extract from his book Riders of the Storm, Ian Cameron recounts some of the major events from that period of the RNLI's history.The...
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