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Rooky's Challenge
In July, chartered surveyor Paul Rocky successfully completed the Avon challenge - a 50 mile row upstream along the Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford - to raise cash for the lifeboats.
• Paul's time (excluding stops)... - View image in PDF
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The American Liberty Ship Ernest L. Grant
APRIL 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. Late at night a doctor received a call from the Deal coastguard asking him to visit the American Liberty ship Ernest L. Grant, which was a quarter of a mile south of the South Goodwin Buoy. A strong north-east wind...
Girls rescued from chilly loch
Two young girls playing in a dinghy on 19 May found themselves drifting into open water and jumped overboard to try to swim to shore.
A honeymooning couple spotted them struggling and called the Coastguard. Loch Ness...
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The "Winston Churchill"
THERE are at present on the coast seven motor life-boats which have been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund. An eighth is to be added to them before the end of the year, the 46-feet Watson cabin life-boat which is now...
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The LRET supports new crew
The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust (The LRET) generously donated £174,000 to the RNLI in 2011, helping us train 258 crew members in sea survival and firefighting.
The LRET is an independent charity working to...
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ON GUARD
Ten new beaches will be watched over by RNLI lifeguards this year, making a total of 224 safer spots for your Summer.
The service covers top holiday hotspots in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Jersey, and...
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S.S. Castor
FEBRUARY 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 7 P.M. information was received from the Humber naval authorities that a Norwegian vessel, about six and a half miles from Spurn, had sent out an SOS as she was leaking badly. The weather wascold,...
A Boat (6)
AUG. 20TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 7.30P.M. a message was received from the police stating that some boys in an open boat were missing and had been last seen drifting to sea. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The...
Chr. Christensen
Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...