Dispatches ’Twas the season … Thousands of RNLI volunteers around the UK and Republic of Ireland were on call over the recent holiday period. It’s too early for 2006 statistics, but from Christmas Eve 2005 to 2 January 2006 volunteer...
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THOSE who attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, were told that 364 people had been rescued by the Institution's life-boats and inshore rescue boats during the previous year, without...
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LIFEBOAT STAYS WITH CASUALTY FOR MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds Whitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels...
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Ix the early afternoon of 27th August last a small steamer. Kendy, of Cardiff, got into difficulties off Porthcawl in Glamorganshire, and foundered. The Crew took to the boat, but it capsized, and, with the men clinging to it, drifted...
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The Bembridge Motor Life-boat went out on 7th December to the help of the ketch Silent, of Cowes, and found her with her head sails blown away and her windlass smashed. Although she was sinking, the men on board refused to leave her, so the...
Mrs. JANE M. PEPPER, honorary secretary, Mansfield branch.
Mr. GEOROE PEARCEY, worker, Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton branch.
Mrs. ROSABEL STEVENS, worker, Ladies' Life-boat Guild,...
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Hoisting A Life-Boat From The Cut To Its Carriage. - View image in PDF
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S.O.S. The Story of the Life-boat Service. ByCyrilJolly. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) Mr. Jolly has already written the life of Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer.
Here he tells the story of the life-boat service. His book is...
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Doris and Ben Tart: the story of the Dungeness lifeboat station is not only the story of their boat—it is the story of their own people. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of the Kent Messenger.. - View image in PDF
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'ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING’
I thought you might be interested to know that my painting of the shipping forecast, entitled 'Attention All Shipping', was awarded top prize in a competition run by the British...
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