THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
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Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
Portrush Mechanic Anthony Chambers is to be awarded the RNLI’s Bronze Medal for Gallantry, for his part in saving the lives of two boys who got trapped in a cave with the tide rising.
Anthony risked his life swimming in...
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Coxswain Sydney Page, of Southend-on-Sea, has won the thanks of the Institution on vellum for rescuing the crew of a yacht which had gone aground on a sandbank in the Thames estuary in a gale. The night was very dark, with mist; the tide was...
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Our annual yellow welly-themed fundraising campaign, Mayday, will return from 26 April to 2 May 2016. Throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland, RNLI supporters will host activities and events to show their appreciation for our brave...
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Three Alderney lifeboat volunteers received top honours at the Daily Express Vodafone Life Savers Awards in October for their rescue of three people swept out to seaLifeboat Operations Manager David McAllister and Lifeboatmen Phil Murray and...
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On the following day the same Lifeboat went, in a heavy sea, to the assistance of the brig William Hill, of Dundalk, which had shown signals of distress while lying in the bay about two miles from the shore. It was found that the...
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, from the reserve fleet, doing tem- porary duty at the station, put out in search of an aeroplane, but found nothing and returned to her...
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—Beginning on the evening of the 31st of January, 1953, floods inun- dated areas in the east of England to an extent unknown in this country in living memory. The Southend-on- Sea life-boat was...