ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...
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Beaumaris
Menai boat run sets new record
Now in its 10th year, East Cheshire Sub-Aqua Club’s Menai Boat Run had a record turnout in March for its weekend of diving and fun – with 278 divers and 35 boats...
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Launches 59. Lives rescued 46.
SEPTEMBER 3RD.- WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 7.50 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Portland, through the coastguard, that three trawlers or drifters were ashore between St....
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The RNLI continues to develop lifesaving equipment of all kinds, to meet new demands as new techniques and materials become available. Tust as with the Severn and Trent class lifeboats often no commercial product suits the exacting needs of...
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The Annual Meetings The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards for 1997 will again take place in the Barbican Hall, London.
The meetings will be held on Thursday 15 May, the AGM at 1130 and the...
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No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
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Life-float parade The theme for this year's carnival parade in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire was 'sports' so the ladies lifeboat guild sailed up the High Street to the sound of Rod Stewart's... - View image in PDF
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BY the death of Mr. Webster Hoare, of St. Albans, on 20th October, the Institution has lost its oldest collector.
Mr. Hoare was nearly 87, and for nearly 30 years had collected for the Institution.
On...
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LAST Christmas a number of Branches again arranged carol-singing parties, and they were even more successful than before, particularly in Sussex. East Grinstead (Sussex), which has led the way with this method of helping the Life-boat...
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Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with an out- board motor had broken down off Penmon Point. At three o'clock the life-boat Field...