RNLI Beach Lifeguards currently operates only in the South West of England, but the RNLI is working hard to ensure the development of lifeguarding all around the coastThe RNLI is committed to maintaining its volunteer ethos. This does not...
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Above: Poster by Michael Downs, aged 14, of Carleton, Skipton, Yorks. - View image in PDF
(11 years and over); right: Poster by Stephen Coles, aged 9, of Billericay, Essex (8 to 10 years).. - View image in PDF
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Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...
Margate, Kent.—1st July, 1939.
Rockets had been reported between Warden Point and the Reculvers, but nothing could be found. Mr. P. E. W.
Gellatly, the honorary secretary, went out in the boat.—Rewards,...
Aith, Shetlands - At 12.45 a.m. on 3rd July, 1966, the medical authorities requested the assistance of the life-boat to take a doctor and nurse to Foula Island where someone was seriously ill. The life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane was...
Coverack, Cornwall - At 3.30 p.m.
on loth August, 1967, the honorary medical adviser told the honorary secretary that his services were required at the scene of an accident on Landkidden beach. The life-boat William Taylor...
FEBRUARY 2 7TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 3.45 in the afternoon information was received that the principal keeper at the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse had asked by wireless for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper. The motor...
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 February 1996 show that so far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 7,272 times (an average of more than 19 launches a day) 1,630 lives were saved (an average of more than 4 a...
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St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 19th of November, 1949, the life-boat rescued three from the ketch Hanna, of Poole.
Rewards, bronze medal and £24 12*.
(A full account of this service will be published in...