Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 9 September 1992 show that so far during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 4,338 times (an average of more than 13 launches a day) 1,141 lives have been saved (an average of more...
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THURSDAY, 11th October, 1906. SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and...
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Newbiggin In London Mrs Dent Coxswain William Robinson and Mrs Clark. - View image in PDF
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Cabin cruiser swamped ONE OF APPLEDORE lifeboat station's shore helpers, Mr P. Ford, was out fishing in his own boat on the afternoon of Saturday September 29, 1984, when he saw an 18ft cabin cruiser trying to negotiate the harbour bar,...
St David's, October 18, 1981: The lug Vernicos Giorgos, partially submerged, with one of the two tugs she had been towing. The photograph was taken the day after the eight crew of the three tugs had been taken off by lifeboat and... - View image in PDF
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17th De- cember. Flares reported E.S.E. of Inchkeith, but nothing was found.— Rewards, £16 16s. 6d..
Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...
At 3.15 p.m. on 20th January, 1965, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a young woman needed hospital treatment and as no other was available requested the use of the lifeboat.
At 3.45 the patient and nurse...
Clovelly, North Devon - At 6.48 p.m.
on 14th January, 1967, information was received, that a boy was stranded on a rock about 500 yards from the shore at Northcott Mouth, one mile north of Bude. The life-boat William...
JANUARY 17TH. - WALMER, KENT.
Flares had been reported, but they were found to come from burning waste on a steamer with which the crew were trying to thaw out a frozen windlass. - Rewards. £29 0s. 6d.