RNLI lottery 'You need hands' was the watchword on the day Max Bygraves drew the winning tickets for the 34th national lottery on July 31, 1986. Mr Bygraves, who was appearing in a summer show at the Poole Arts Centre, kept the...
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Duplex Craft has produced two versions of a 12th scale plastic kit for an Atlantic 21 lifeboat model based on the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic: one version is for a static model (price £24.95), the other for a working,... - View image in PDF
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Drama after the draw! The former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, and comedienne Sandi Toksvig drew a massive crowd to Weymouth's harbourside when they kept a promise to the RNLI to pick the winning tickets in the 66th National Lottery.<...
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Launches 42 Lives rescued 16 APRIL 1ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMAPRIL BERLAND. At 1.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local fishing coble Fisher Lass was overdue. There was a dense fog, and a heavy swell was breaking on the...
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.35 A.M. on the 21st February the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore about a quarter-mile N.E.
of Spurn light-vessel. She was the steam trawler Rose of England, of Grimsby,...
The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 5.30 A.M. on the 14th February,- 1939, the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore on the end of Spurn Point. The coxswain immediately went to the beach, where he saw the steam trawler Hausa, of...
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
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I'm Stormy Stan,} Lifeboatman Extraordinary from Storm force, the RNLI's club for the under 16s - Eric the seagull and I are always to be seen in the club's exclusive magazine, Storm force News.
As well as...
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Six 600mm diameter tubular steel piles were driven on each side to support the new galvanised steel substructure which was built up before the decayed timber was cut away.. - View image in PDF
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Below - Helicopter transfer exercises with Clovelly lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
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