CLIFF RESCUE Life-boats are often called to rescue people trapped in difficult situations, and on 28th February, 1971, an anticipatory message was received at 3.9 p.m. from the Coastguard reporting that a cliff climber was in difficulties at...
GROUNDED CREW A red flare sighted in the vicinity of the Bernbridge Ledge buoy on 14th June, 1971, led to the Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat the Jack Shayler and the Lees being launched at 11.40 p.m.
in an east north...
Hoylake, Cheshire - At 4 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, while the life-boat Oldham IV was returning from an exercise, a small rowing boat with four youths on board was sighted in the vicinity of Prestatyn buoy about a mile off...
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
'Currie explores the enormity of the beautiful and the placidness of the wild.
Within this dichotomy he engages with the horizon as a stablising force to which the viewer steers a path - an imaginary line between air... - View image in PDF
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High flier RNLI Governor, Barrie Simpson- Wells marked his 65th birthday with an Alpine paraglider flight for charity.
The flight from the 7,500ft Plan d'Aiguille, filmed by a camera crew with radio instructions to keep... - View image in PDF
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Dogged determination North Berwick's D class inflatable was called out during July this year after a Golden Retriever decided to show off the breed's prowess in the water.
Six year old Homer decided to take a dip...
His Grace The Duke of Atholl As this issue of the Lifeboat was going to press we learned with great sadness of the death on 27 February 1996 of His Grace The Duke of Atholl, a tireless supporter of the Institution for almost 40...
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