Lifeboat Heroes, the RNLI documentary shown on the History channel last April, is now available on DVD.
Ben Fogle tells the RNLI story in the main feature. The DVD also includes special extras, such as dramatic real-life...
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The Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award 2010 will be presented to Jamie Rowlands and Andy Waterfield of Polzeath Beach, Cornwall, for rescuing two surfers on 29 October.
In a demonstration of seamanship worthy of an...
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JUNE 26TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after 9 in the morning the R.A.F. reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee l910- 1935 was launched at...
Nov. 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from the New Brighton Stage that a fishing boat appeared to be out of control and drifting. Later flares were seen off the Rip Rap Buoy. A moderate S.S.E. gale was...
MAY 21ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
A report was received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore two miles south of McArthur Head, Islay, and at 8.30 at night the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched. The...
MARCH 14TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.46 A.M. four Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing ground. As the weather was threatening, two of the boats returned, but the other two began fishing.
As...
After the maiden trip of the latest addition to Lowestoft's trawler fleet, Silverfish, owned by the Colne Fishing Co. Ltd., the owners gave the first kit of fish, one of selected plaice, to be auctioned for the Institution's...
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On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...
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BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE of WALES, K.G.
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES
H.R.H. THE DUKE of EDINBURGH,...
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Mr. R. C. Tremlett, a well-known bass fisherman in the Portsmouth area, has raised considerable sums of money for the Institution by giving talks, illus- trated by films and slides, on fishing and then making collections. Another film that...
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