There’s no mistaking an RNLI lifeboat – but what are all those other craft in the lifesaving team?
When RNLI lifeboat volunteers answer the call for help, they are launching to the front line in a battle to save lives –...
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All kinds of memorials have been erected to man but among the more unusual is this one portraying the life-size model of a dog. It can be seen on the front at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast overlooking a children's model yacht pond. It... - View image in PDF
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On the 2nd April, during a strong gale from the .W., and in a tremendous sea, the barque Viking, of Sunderland, went ashore n Harlyn Bay, near this place. The City of Bristol Life-boat, Albert Edward, was ;aken on its carriage to the bay and...
As the means provided in other countries for saving lives from shipwreck cannot fail to be interesting to a large number of our readers, we have much satisfaction in placing before them the following account of the Society which has under-...
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Two young school girls, Claire Durbin and Claire Wates, organised a sponsored swim on behalf of the RNLI in the swimming pool of Button High School. All ten of the 10-year-old girls taking part completed the maximum half mile, and between... - View image in PDF
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its appointed coxswain at a salary of 8/., and an assistant at 22. a year. The crew consists, in addition, of a bowman, and as many boatmen as the boat pulls oars. The members of the volunteer crews are registered, and wherever practicable,...
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When the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, visited Cowes, Isle of Wight, on October 5 he witnessed the self-righting trial in Samuel White's yard of the 37' 6" Rather class lifeboat which will be stationed at Dungeness; he... - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 29TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.40 at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at the North Cheek of Robin Hood’s Bay, six miles south of Whitby. A light southerly wind was blowing, and the sea was...