Our free and fun outdoor water safety sessions are back for another year
We’re working with Swim England to equip 7–14-year-olds with vital life skills for open water. The sessions are run by qualified instructors and...
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IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...
Category: Inaugurations
Cromer's famous son Henry Blogg is the most decorated RNLI crew member of all time. What kind of man was this lifeboating legend, and what did he do to earn such accolades? Henry Blogg's time as a crew member and coxswain was an...
Category: Articles
The Yar- mouth Life-boat men were exposed for more than eleven hours to the fury of a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea, in connection with the wreck of the barque Erna, of Arendal, which became un- manageable when off Yarmouth, on the llth...
Two Life-boats, the Martha, of Cresswell, and the Edward and Eliza, of Holy Island, celebrated Harvest Festival by answering the call of vessels in distress. In both cases the crews were actually in church, and the Harvest Festival service...
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Services by Offshore Lifeboats (from page 82) Barry Dock, South Glamorgan June 13, 14, 30, July 1 (twice), 6, 20, 26, 28 (twice), August 4, 8, 24.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd July 19.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight June...
Category: Services
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 37, 45, 57, the following launches on service were made during the months June, July and August, 1969, inclusive: Aith,...
Category: Services
ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...
Category: Services
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 291 Life-boat Stations...
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as yet, been held in the Mid- lands took place in Birmingham on Friday and Saturday, May 13th and 14th, when no fewer than 217 delegates attended from eighty-four branches.
A visit was paid on the first day to Fort Dunlop,...
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