Dispatches ’Twas the season … Thousands of RNLI volunteers around the UK and Republic of Ireland were on call over the recent holiday period. It’s too early for 2006 statistics, but from Christmas Eve 2005 to 2 January 2006 volunteer...
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Bear necessities Mrs Mary Woods of Hamble ladies' guild, has been knitting personalized teddy bears since 1984, and the proceeds of the sale some 466 teddies has provided three Neil Robertson stretchers for Beaumaris, Eastbourne and...
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BARROW ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):MayS.16Jun 12.
Jul 11,20{ i2) D-536:May5,13.16Jun 12.25,29, Jul 2.9.11.20(x2) ABERDOVEY B-758:MayB.10,Jul 18(x2),21,31 ABERSOCH B-TOftMay 13Jun 1.19.2427, Jul17(x2).24 ABERYSTWYTH B-70*May...
Category: Services
Two lifeboats in search for car in tragic cliff-fall The RNLI's chairman, Michael Vemon, has written to the coxswain of Eastbourne's All-weather lifeboat commending him on his actions during a service on 23 June 1990. The helmsman of...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the...
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'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.
It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...
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RNLI staff, crew and volunteers spent an exhausting weekend in Newcastle from 20-22 June, representing the RNLI at the 10th UK and Ireland Corporate GamesAgainst tough competition, the RNLI has been appointed the official charity of the UK...
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Rescue lifeguards training for a real rescue. - View image in PDF
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WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...
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Silver Jubilee We were delighted to read about the present Wells' lifeboat in the winter issue of the journal and also to hear about the naming by Princess Margaret last November of Margate's new Rother lifeboat, Silver Jubilee...
Category: Correspondence