At first glance the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the RNLI appear poles apart. But the world's largest coastguard service and the RNLI have united to set up an exchange programme to help both services improve their ability to save...
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Alaska Cruise & the Canadian Rockies Every booking benefi ts the RNLI from £1599 Let your spirit soar higher than an American eagle on this epic journey into the heart of the ‘Big Lonely’, Alaska. Once only the hardiest souls could...
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THURSDAY, 2nd September, 1869: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
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AT 1.55 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage coast- guard told the honorary secretary of the Swanage life-boat station, Mr. W.
Powell, that the tug Flying Kestrel had passed a distress message to...
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THERE were 272 stations embraced in the Life-saving Establishment of the United States at the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1902. Of this number 195 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the...
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THURSDAY, 8th January, 1891.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
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THE second coxswain of the Appledore life-boat, John Richard Bowden, who took command of the Appledore lifeboat in the temporary absence of the regular coxswain, Sidney Cann, on nth September, 1964, has been awarded the bronze medal for...
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In the New Year Honours List, the BEM was awarded to Frank Moore, motor mechanic of Barrow lifeboat since 1954. He was assistant motor mechanic at Barrow from 1937 to 1953.
* * * It is with deep regret that we announce the...
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Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.
The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter... - View image in PDF
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