In this issue News 2 All the latest from and about the Lifeboats Letters 8 Sailing on through stormy seas 10 Highlights from the Chairman's latest ACM speech Lifeboats in action 14 Includes a Silver Medal-winning service Meet the fleet...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.55 a.m. on 9th October, 1965, the coastguard notified the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a half miles east of the station. At 12 o'clock the IRB launched at high water in a strong...
The 175th year looking back After a remarkable year the 175th anniversary programme formally ends at the 2000 London Boat Show.
There was more total media coverage of the RNLI's birthday in one day on 4 March than in...
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St Ives - Mersey class The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 41) The importance of the naming ceremony for St Ives' Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41) was recognised by the weather, which slipped in a warm,...
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WITHIN the last few weeks we have received from the Board of Trade their annual Blue Book, furnishing in a tho- roughly comprehensive and intelligible form very full and detailed statistics of the shipping casualties "on or near"...
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Buckie, Banff shire.—18th December.
Flares had been reported to the N.W., but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found.—Rewards, £15 9*..
MAY 2ND. - WICKLOW. Flares had been seen, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 7s. 6d..
Building into the MillenniumRNLI shoreworks manager Howard Richings continues his tour around the coast with a visit to IrelandOkay, so we all make mistakes - there are 38 stations around the coast of Ireland, not 37 as stated at the end of...
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MARCH 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 3.15 P.M. a ship’s boat was reported by the life-boat motor-mechanic to be adrift a mile from the shore, to the west of Sheringham. The coastguard at Skeldon Hill had also seen the boat...
Teesmouth lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Sarah Jane and James Season, was on passage to Hanlepool on August 16, 1981. under the command of Coxswain William Carter when she was informed b\ Tees Coastguard that the motor cruiser Marietta was...