RNLI corporate services director, tenVentham, former head of fundraising and marketing, had a great surprise in July when he was presented with a Lifetime Achiever's Award by Kevin Kibble of Professional Fundraising magazine. The award,...
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cover picture: A member of the RnLI’s Rapid Response Unit watches over an evacuee in the summer floods Photo: robin Goodlad. - View image in PDF
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APRIL 5TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
During the morning, four of the crew of the minesweeper Port Rose, which was anchored two or three miles to the north of Sheringham, came ashore in a rowing boat. The weatherwas fine with a...
Three sailors whose flares were seen off the coast of Pembrokeshire on 5 September were very glad that vigilant onlookers called the Coastguard.
Their boat had capsized, and Fishguard’s inshore lifeboat, battling force 5–6...
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Here at the RNLI we’re sorry to report the death of Trevor Grills, singer with the shanty group Fisherman’s Friends. He died on 11 February, after being injured in an accident at a concert venue that also killed the manager of the group,...
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IT was stated in the first Number of this Journal, that it would be published monthly, or occasionally, as circumstances might point out, and that it would be sold at the lowest possible price that would cover the expense of paper and...
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ON the 10th October last at an early hour the inhabitants of Brighton were aroused from their beds by the report of an approach- vious to the life-boats reaching the wreck, several rockets with lines attached had been fired under the...
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On the 28th September, at 3 A.M., a small vessel, which proved to be the barge Peace, of London, was ob- served to have anchored in heavy broken water off the Camber coast-guard station, near Rye. The Camber life-boat was quickly launched,...
SEPT. 2ND.- WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At about 11.20 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that the trawler Navarre, of Grimsby, was ashore about five miles south of Duncansby Head. A fresh southerly wind was...
AUGUST 30TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
At 3.45 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer at Appledore, that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between the Bar and Haire Point off Saunton Sands, and the motor...