COVER PICTURE Si Abbs' new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Kathrinc and Dorothy Burr, pictured recently on exercise, will be named Idler this year. She has a/ready attracted considerable public interest as lite principal attraction... - View image in PDF
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Lengthy search but no survivors It is an unfortunate fact that some lifeboat services do not result in the rescue of survivors, a result which inevitably has an effect on the lifeboat crews but which does not affect their dedication to the...
During the RNLI's anniversary year, branches, guilds and supporters from all over the UK and Republic of Ireland celebrated in a number of novel and interesting ways - with many of the green fingered amongst them saying it with flowers.....
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Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
•1824-1974 See how 98,500 lives have been saved by men like these This is just one of the remarkable photographs included inTheObserver Lifeboat Exhibition.
They are the work of Observer photographer, Chris Smith.who spent...
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Car over cliff IN THE EARLY HOURS of Wednesday October 22, 1980, Paignton Police informed Brixham Coastguard that a car was over the cliff three miles from Torbay lifeboat station. The Police, Fire and Ambulance services were alerted and...
f s -T 4- /a-rrt'C Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth .. .. .. .. .. 3 Summary of Accounts for 1976 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 TT i -*r-r -r T Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6 Volume XLV -v T i Annual Awards 1976 12...
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January 1998 Agnes Bell, past president and committee member of the former Dunoon ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Bell was a committee member before 1940 and was president from 1975 until 1987. She was awarded the gold badge in 1982..
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by Campbell MacCallum The Mersey class lifeboat Her Majesty The Queen taking part in the Lord Mayor'sShowon 13 November 1993.
Among those aboard her are the BBC TV's 'Blue Peter' presenters and the young... - View image in PDF
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by Maggie Murray The recipients of the Medals for Gallantry presented at the 1995 Awards aboard Stornoway's new Severn class lifeboat, The Will, at a photocall held the previous day at St Katharine Dock.
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