North Eastern Division Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of...
Category: Services
INJURED SEAMAN LANDED IN SEVERE GALE AND COMPLETE DARKNESS Force 9 gale and snow squalls hinder Atlantic 21 rescue in The WashHelmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton lifeboat has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in the...
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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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Mark Bates, coxswain of Kilmore Quay lifeboat from 1950 to 1966, who was awarded the silver medal of the RNLI in 1958 for the rescue of the crewof 10 of a French trawler in December, 1957..
Category: Obituaries
THE MAIN SHORELINE office has now moved from Salisbury to the new Headquarters building at Poole. This has entailed the movement of records and equipment and changes in clerical staff.
While we are, of course, making every...
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Lifeboats representing the lifesaving associations of France, the Federal Republic of West Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden made the voyage to the West Country last summer to be present for the opening weekend of the International Lifeboat...
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Regular players of the Lifeboat Lottery will know Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines as a kind sponsor, frequently donating cruises as prizes. But there is a lot more to the RNLI’s partnership with Fred. Olsen than holiday...
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COASTIVAL
22–24 February 2019
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, this year's Coastival weekend offers open studios, music, performances, parades and activities to delight the...
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Coxswain John Matthews, of Moelfre, Anglesey, has won the Institution's silver medal. On a very dark night, in a very rough sea, he took the lifeboat to the rescue of four airmen whose dinghy had been carried close to the rocks. It was a...
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