The volunteers aboard an inshore lifeboat faced nearly overwhelming conditions one day last March …
The shipping and inshore waters forecast at 5.20am warned of the impending...
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Birthday Honours The following have been honoured by Her Majesty The Queen in the recent Birthday Honours: For services to the RNLI QBE Dr Bill Guild - Life Vice President of the Committee of Management and an Honorary Life Governor (former...
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THE OFFICER MAGAZINE The Officer Magazine salutes the workers and supporters of the RNLI and would like to bring to your attention our new subscriber offer.
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Books First of the flood By Fred Normandale Published by Bottom End Publishing ISBN 0954368606 Price £11.75 paperback Now Lifeboat Operations Manager at Scarborough, Fred Normandale grew up as part of the fishing community in the...
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Three skin-divers who went into the sea at Thornwick Bay, Flamborough, were soon in trouble on 18th September, 1966, and had to be rescued. Here one of them is being hauled from rocks to the Flamborough life-boat. Assistance was also given... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Leo A. Clegg, D.S.C., D.A., of the Aberdeen life-boat Ramsay-Dyce, Appointed second coxswain in 1960, Coxswain Clegg, who is a lecturer at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, became coxswain later that year. Since 1960 the life-boat... - View image in PDF
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LURCHING ABOUT on the deck of Valentia lifeboat, struggling to make sense of a simple piece of chartwork, it was shattering to hear the smooth delivery of the necessary accurate information over the radio from the Nimrod aircraft overhead....
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To mark the retirement of John Owen, who had been honorary secretary of Rhyl for 25 years following 22 years previous service, Rhyl motor mechanic, Peter Adams, named the model 48' 6" Solent lifeboat he had made John M. Owen and put... - View image in PDF
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FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KIXG EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
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DECEMBER 19TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the postmaster at Sandness telephoned that a woman was seriously ill on the island of Papa-Stour and that a doctor was urgently needed. A full gale had been blowing...