Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
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1962 £ 240,845 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS.— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Boulmer, Caister, Cullercoats, Hastings, Howth, Kirk- cudbright, Llandudno, Longhope, Lowestoft, Sal- combe, Seaham...
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Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...
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News Battered and brave A passing journalist captured one of the most iconic images of the RNLI’s history when he photographed the Scarborough lifeboat and crew in action in May 2005 (above). They were searching for a mother and her children...
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SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 17 1982: 1,281 people rescued; nearly £16 million raised NOT MANY spring or early summer days have been sunny this year, but Tuesday May 17, when RNLI people from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland...
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THE PROTOTYPE of a new lifeboat to bridge the gap between the smaller offshore lifeboats and the Atlantic 21 ILB is under construction. Among the requirements for the new boat listed by the RNLI's Executive Committee were that it should...
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With huge numbers of visitors expected in the south west for the solar eclipse on 11 August the RNLI and the other emergency services had their contingency plans in place… Mike Floyd watched events unfold at the Coastguard MRCC at Falmouth...
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On 23 May 2001 the first RNLI inland waterway lifeboat station, on Lough Erne in Northern Ireland, opened for business.
Honorary secretary Sam McCreery and deputy launching authority Archie Birrell report on the events of...
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NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBER- j LAND.—At about 5 P.M. on the 7th | January a message was received stating that the steamer Teesborough, of Mid- dlesbrough, was ashore about three- quarters of a mile outside the harbour.
As...
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We ask the questions RNLI Lifeboat stations throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland throw open their doors to the public this summer. Visitors will be able to speak to the crews, see the lifeboats and get a taste of the unique atmosphere...
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