Following a fantastic reception last year, the RNLI College's Mayday Food Festival returns to Holes Bay in Poole, Dorset on April 30. The foodie festivities kick off a month of fundraising with our pick of local and artisan delights,...
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More than 2,000 people attended a 'Three Bands' concert in London presented by the Lloyd's insurance broking firm J. H. Minet and Co. in aid of the RNLI. There was military and light music from the Band ofHM Royal Marine's... - View image in PDF
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Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumber- land.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned the Blyth life-boat station to say a man at Cambois had reported that a fishing coble appeared to be in difficulties in...
AT THE TIME of the London Boat Show last January a discussion was held on the shared task of lifesaving at sea by lifeboats and rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters of the Royal Navy were represented by Lt-Cdr Adrian Thomas, Commanding...
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Naming and Dedication AT ST MARY'S, ISLES OF SCILLY, SHOREHAM HARBOUR AND FISHGUARD St Mary's, Isles of Scilly THE ISLES OF scii.i.v's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, donated by Mrs Esme Edgar and her son, Mr Anthony Edgar, was...
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FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
The Humber, Yorkshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a cargo vessel and a trawler had been in collision and that the skipper of the trawler needed...
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.—On the 12th February, while the Girvan fishing fleet were off Corsewell, a gale suddenly sprang up from S.E., which afterwards veered to S. and increased in violence.
The boats promptly made for home, and...
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 1.30 p.m. on 30th June, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that a skiff with three people on board was in dangerous water off Mexico Beach. At 1.31 inshore rescue boat no. 5 launched in a moderate northwesterly...
Workington, Cumberland.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 23rd of January, 1955, a man reported that he had seen red Very lights off the entrance to the harbour. At 7.50 the life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out. The sea was calm, there...