Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...
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1964 WAS a record year with more launches by rescue craft of the R.N.L.I. than ever before. In 1965 a similar pattern seems to be developing. In two of the three months covered by this edition of THE LIFE-BOAT records were again established....
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Cabin cruiser on bar THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Blyth lifeboat station was informed by Coastguard Tyne at 1440 on Sunday, August 29, 1976, that two swimmers had been swept out to sea off Cambois; a girl bather had been picked up by a...
Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat during a night service in severe...
Overseas greetings RNLI Deputy Director, Ray Kipling, recently received a letter and some photographs from Fernando Andrade, secretary of the Uruguayan lifeboat service ADES. The picture above shows the Montevideo station lifeboat ADES 14,...
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Richard Evans BEM: a legendary lifeboatman It is with great sadness that theLifeboat reports the death of Richard Evans, aged 96, coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat from 1954 to 1970 and holder of two RNLl Gold Medals.
As well as...
Category: Obituaries
Ireland Division Harbour tug to the rescue AT ABOUT NOON on Saturday, January 12,1974, the Royal Ulster Constabulary were told that a small dinghy was in difficulties off Ballgalley Head. Police Sergeant D. McCutcheon drove out to the Head...
Category: Services
Luck of the draw The 45th lottery draw took place on Sunday 30 April at RNLI Headquarters and was attended by a coach party of voluntary workers from the Dudley Branch.
Mrs Felicity Irwin, Public Affairs Executive for TVS,...
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On the 18th September Caister supplied another stir- ring story of the sea, and while there is unfortunately some loss of life to record, the Life-boatmen, the men who " never turn back," have performed a fine rescue of...
As our readers know, the Institution makes awards for all rescues or attempted rescues of those in peril from shipwreck round the coasts of the United Kingdom, whether the rescues are performed by the Life-boat crews themselves or by private...
Category: Medals