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SINCE the first experiments with motor life-boats in 1904, the Institution has used petrol engines. Diesel engines, although they have important advan- tages have, until recently, not been possible, because, with their low speed of...

On the 17th November, during a very heavy gale of wind and in a high sea, a Prussian brig was seen hoisting signals of distress off this place. The Baroness Windsor life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to her assistance. Three...

TOW FOR YACHT WITH FIVE ABOARD Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the llth May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the yacht Klaus, near the Goodwin Knoll buoy, had steering trouble and needed help. The coaster Keynes...

Troon: Monday February 27, 1984, at 1135, Troon's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Connel Elizabeth Cargill, under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Johnson, left her mooring after reports that the tug Garnock had been damaged by an...

RNLI lifeguards are now on duty in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire. Liz Cook reports on the charity’s drive to put life first on ever more beaches

2007was a breakthrough year for the RNLI. Its lifeguarding service, already...

RETIRED DOCTOR COMMENTS ON PRIVATE HEALTH : After retiring many people find that private health insurance discounts are no longer available to them.

Worse still, there is an enormous age-related loading in subscription...