Andrew Freemantle MBE, chief executive of the RNLI, and Michael Viasto, operations director, teamed up to row up the River Thames to raise money for the RNLI.
The pair were part of a two-day event organised byGoodenough... - View image in PDF
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 1993 Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Tuesday after the May Day Bank Holiday, 4 May 1993, saw the Institution's 169th Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards. Although held at...
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Above. A lovely day for a swim. Excellent weather over the two days made life a little more pleasant for the crews demonstrating righting techniques. Here the air bag on an Atlantic 21 brings her swiftly upright just off the depot quay. D... - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1949 - - 76,495 The First Quarter of the Second Century On the 4th of March...
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Birds Eye Foods . . . . . . .. Inside Back Cover Central London Committee . . . . . . . . .. 38 Evett Sailwear Ltd 72 Forest Row Lifeboat Choir 66 Functional Clothing . . . . . . .. Inside Front Cover Glanvill Enthoven 71 Gomer Press...
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RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—About 1 A.M. on the 3rd January, the barque Clifton, of Liverpool, was wrecked on Rhosneigir rocks. It being then moderately smooth, the crew remained by the ship in the hope of floating her off; but about 1 P.M., in...
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Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...
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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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EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...
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