branch and guild members have met the challenge with their usual enthusiasm, sheer hard work—and success.
Perhaps the most important statistic of all is the number of lives rescued in the past ten years: almost 12,500. That...
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The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager, Howard Richings, looks at the way that lifeboat houses have changed to reflect the changing demands made upon them In the early years RNLI boathouses were very basic.
Resources were scarce...
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AFTER the Annual Meeting, which was held in the Central Hall, Westminster, the Prince of Wales paid a private visit to the Westminster Hospital to see Miss Hannah Denham, who for many years had been a patient in the incurable ward, and who...
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AUGUST 28TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea about 11.30 in the morning, off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, twenty miles away on the other side of Caernarvon Bay, and at 12.36...
The Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award 2010 will be presented to Jamie Rowlands and Andy Waterfield of Polzeath Beach, Cornwall, for rescuing two surfers on 29 October.
In a demonstration of seamanship worthy of an...
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, brandies and guilds were asked to make some special fund raising effort to help raise the six million pounds needed for the vast boat building programme on which the Institution has embarked...
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Appeal reaches £75,000 BBC Radio Cleveland's Lifeboat 2000 Appeal has now reached the target of €75,000 to purchase an Atlantic 75 class inshore lifeboat for Hartiepool.
The news was broken to thousands of...
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FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.
The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...
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Quay, Bembridge Harbour on Thursday, September 10, 1987.
The Foundation has also provided two Arun class boats, one stationed at Stornoway and the other in the RNLI's relief fleet.
Sir Max Aitken had...
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Ashore inshore lifeboat Flash floods hit St Ives in mid- November when the Stennack River burst its banks in heavy rain. Six St Ives lifeboatmen were asked by police to search buildings for stranded occupants in the middle of the night. The...