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RNLI's busiest year The latest statistics show that 2005 was the RNLI's busiest year ever RNLI lifeboat launches in 2005 People rescued by RNLI lifeboats in 2005 8,273 8,104 People rescued by RNLI lifeguards in 2005 2,333 Lives saved...
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Cape Palliser
The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, 1939, the watchman reported that a trawler had gone ashore on the Inner Binks. A light N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, and the weather was foggy. The motor life-boat...
Gladonia (1)
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
An Ex-Naval Motor Launch
LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 4.0 in the afternoon of January 15th, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel, believed to be an ex-naval motor launch, was drifting five miles south of the coastguard...
Papal Blessing
RNLI Chief Executive Paul Boissier had the honour of meeting Pope Benedict XVI and HM The Queen on 16 September during a Papal visit to Holyrood House in Edinburgh.
Paul joined a number of charity bosses and heads of...
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Readers' Letters and Information
Dear Editor Having been a Shoreline supporter for many years and now an Offshore member, I thought I would write in and air my views on lilos, rubber rings and inflatable dinghies, which are sold at seaside shops: can't we get these toys...
Category: Correspondence
American Coastal Lifeboat Development: An English Contribution By William D Wilkinson
AS THE RNLI celebrates its 150th anniversary, it is appropriate to acknowledge the help it has given many lifesaving services throughout the world. This help has taken many forms, one of the most significant being in the area of coastal...
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Sesam (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
St. Pierre
Storm tow HARTLAND POINT Coastguard informed lifeboat 70-001, Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), at 0210 on February 6 that a trawler was sinking 281°T 26 miles from the Point. The lifeboat was under way by 0220 and 12 minutes...
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Swept into sea AN ANGLER SWEPT into the sea north of Filey Brigg was reported to the deputy launching authority of Filey lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1222 on Sunday September 25, 1983. Nine minutes later the station's D class...