Mr. Edward Heath on a visit to the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show in London in 1968. A letter in his capacity as Prime Minister is reproduced on the facing page. Last year he was elected Yachtsman of the Year by the Guild of... - View image in PDF
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(below) The RNLI's President, HRH The Duke of Kent, accompanied by Chairman David Acland (right) visits the Sea Safety display at the Barbican. The announcement of the coast-wide launch of SEA Check was one of this year's main... - View image in PDF
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In 2003 Chantal Carr weighed 20 stone. Just 4 years later she’d lost half her body weight, and went on to attempt to swim the Channel in aid of the RNLI
It took some straight talking from her...
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DURING March life-boats went out on service 26 times and rescued 4 lives.
REFLOATING A STEAMER Cloughey, Co. Down.— About three o'clock in the morning of the 7th of March, 1950, information was received from the Tara...
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Deer Rescued By Tynemouth Irb The Service Was Reported On Page 452 of Our September Issue. - View image in PDF
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About 1.30 A.M. of the 23rd October, the night being stormy and peculiarly dark, the wind at east (dead on shore), the lights of a vessel on the Beacon Rocks, Eoker, to the north, of the entrance to Sunderland Harbour, were observed from the...
Just part of the crowd which gathered on Aldeburgh beach for the naming of the station's new 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat James Cable. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Eastern Daily Press. - View image in PDF
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Nov. 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 6.49 A.M.. a message was received at the Humber lifeboat station from the Spurn Head Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel one and a half miles south-west from Withernsea...
(Left) The honorary secretary of the lifeboat station authorises the lifeboat to be launched and maintains operational control in conjunction with HM Coastguard. He is generally assisted in the administration of the station by a local... - View image in PDF
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For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Porthcawl, Glamorganshire.—The fish- ing boat Lucky Boy, with a crew of four, got into difficulties on the afternoon of...
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