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We are happy to announce that the following lifeboat people were awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee medals: Major General Ralph H. Farrant, CB, Chairman, RNLI, L. A. Austin, chief personnel officer, RNLI, A. W. Neal, deputy secretary...

ADVeRtoRIAL Reaching new heights Laura Wiltshire decided to treat her parents, Dave and Joan, to the ride of their lives, with a little help from an RNLI supporter offer ‘With mum’s 50th birthday fast approaching i wanted to surprise her...

Galway Bay - Ireland Division Following a number of search and rescue incidents in Galway Bay, the RNLI announced that an Atlantic 21 lifeboat would be allocated to Galway on a year's evaluation.

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James Cable, ex-Coxswain of the Aldeburgh (Suffolk) Station and a member of the Branch Committee, died on 5th May of this year, at the age of 78. Few, if any, Coxswains have had more brilliant careers, and his name was known far beyond the...

Mrs Bessie Evans, president of New Quay ladies' guild. She joined the branch in 1976, was its honorary treasurer from 1977 to 1991 when she was appointed president. Mrs Evans was awarded a Silver badge in 1987..

A woman life-boat supporter, writing from Italy, recently said that in Chichester on Life-boat Day, 'y°u will not find a single citizen without the life- boat badge'. She added: 'In 1967 my warming experience was the...

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 8.20 p.m. on 23rd July, 1966, a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties in Dublin bay. There was a fresh westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The life-boat Dunleary II proceeded at 8.35 on an ebbing tide. She...