Every year many delegates from overseas are welcomed at RNLI headquarters, Poole. One page from the visitors' book, covering just three weeks in March, 1979, records signatures of 12 visitors from the USA, Chile, China and the United... - View image in PDF
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Commander, Order of the British Empire David AclandcBEDL Former Chairman. - View image in PDF
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The Mincing Lane was also launched at 9.15 A.M. on the 2nd of May, to the assistance of two large decked fishingboats, the Excelsior and the Pilgrim, which were in danger during a heavy sea and a dense fog. The Life-boat pulled out about a...
Neil Oliver’s fascination with daring deeds has led him to champion the RNLI – and he’s been in deep water himself a few times, as he tells Rory Stamp
With his rich Scots accent and long black hair, broadcaster, writer and...
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It was the morning of Saturday 24 May 2008 and the sailor, en route from the Azores to Ireland, was in considerable pain. He struggled to control his yacht in the rough seas that would inevitably worsen – gales were expected for the evening....
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WE publish on page 17 a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th September, 1929.
The total sum raised by these twenty Branches was...
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Stornoway, Hebrides. At 2.10 on the morning of the 27th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the liner Kungsholm of Gothenburg, which was on passage to Sweden from the United States of America, would be off...
Out of the blue: the Prime Minister paid a visit to Porlhcawl lifeboat station when she was in South Wales last June. I he crew presented her with a plat/lie and while she was being shown their lf ft I) class inflatable she tried her hand at... - View image in PDF
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The Humber, Yorkshire.—Just after seven o'clock in the evening of the 9th of August, 1948, the Withernsea coast- guard reported a small motor yacht in difficulties two miles south of Withern- sea, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford...
JANUARY 23RD. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 6.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned a message from the naval authorities at Lowestoft that a vessel in Corton Roads was in need of help and the motor life-boat Louise...