neWs 21st century stations The RNLI’s Shoreworks team is continuing to update lifeboat stations around the UK and RoI, thanks to your support.
In Hoylake, Merseyside, a £2M appeal has been launched to raise funds for a...
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The cover picture by Richard and Sally Greenhill is of Coxswain William Sheader, aged 49, of Scarborough, Yorkshire, who joined the local life-boat in 1945. He was bowman from December, 1951, to December, 1954, when he became second coxswain... - View image in PDF
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HORNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Horn- sea, in lieu of an old boat at that place, which was of an unwieldy and inferior construction, and in which the...
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Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakersTwo Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in the rescue of 17 people from a 75ft yacht...
On the afternoon of the 8th September a message was received from the coast- guard, through the wireless station, that a motor fishing boat was aground just south of St. Mary's Island, which is about three miles north of Culler- coats. A...
A mock Viking longship—one of four glass fibre replicas belonging to the Viking Longship Association—ran into trouble in Peel Harbour, on the Isle of Man, during a local carnival on August 2, 1987, when it began leaking and became submerged... - View image in PDF
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Aith, Shetlands.—On the 10th of March, 1947, a doctor at Walls tele- phoned that he had a man patient who must be taken to hospital for an operation. The road to Lerwick was impassable with snow, and as no other boat was obtainable he asked...
DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid services, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115 lives,...
Bookw of the I Bookshop Offer Price £4.95 Price after 1st July £ 6.95 Every copy sold makes a contribution to the RNLI! This is the exciting story of the RNLI: the men, the boats, the rescues, and has been chosen by a panel of...
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Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...