St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.28 p.m. on i2th August, 1966, two men, who had left St. Ives for Carbis Bay at 4 o'clock in a rubber dinghy, were reported missing.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...
On March 30 Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (c), director of the Institution, accepted the gift of a radar simulator, to be used for crew training, from Alan Jones (I), of Rediffusion Ltd of Crawlev. The simulator was prepared for the RNLI by a... - View image in PDF
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D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...
Children have been given a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to name a lifeboat in a recent competition. As well as choosing the name of a new Shannon class, the winner and their family will be VIP guests at the naming...
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THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund are to be congratulated on the admirable zeal and praiseworthy enthusiasm with which the local Life- boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have every where, apparently, been...
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Not just boats, you know The cover picture from your winter 2001/02 issue of the Lifeboat showed one of our squadron helicopters, Callsign Rescue 193, operating with a Severn class lifeboat. Inside you incorrectly identified this as an RAF...
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(from page 47) east, near gale force 7, the sea moderate; visibility was good.
The honorary medical adviser could not embark as he was already at an emergency, but the injured man had been tended by a member of La Quintals...
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BRIGHTON.—The barque Bruckley Castle, of Glasgow, bound from Grimsby for Santos, Brazil, with coal and railway sleepers, in bringing up in order to land a pilot, in a moderate gale from E.N.E.
and a rough sea, stranded...
Filey, Yorkshire.—At about 10.25 A.M. on the 18th February, 1939, two local fishing cobles were behind Filey Brig, where heavy seas were running.
A W.N.W. fresh wind was blowing, with a moderate to rough sea. At 10.45...