As the Lifeboat went to print, RNLI rescue data for 2008 were announced.
Every one of the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units routinely reports its operational activities to Headquarters, where the Service...
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'FOR THOSE IN PERIL Introducing two unique bronzes created for Members of the RNLI by Military Artist Peter Hicks.
Both illustrate splendidly the character, style of dress and equipment as worn during those early...
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MR. EDMUND WARDE, of The Red House, Lyminge, Folkestone, Kent, has compiled a pocket anthology of nearly 150 sayings about courage, from Job's "I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer," to Rudyard Kipling's...
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Those who have hitherto received THE LIFE-BOAT free of charge in recognition of services rendered to the R.N.L.I. will continue to do so. So will all Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association members. But it is hoped steadily to...
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At 5.46 p.m. on 25th April, 1967, information was received that a fishing boat returning from the Minquiers had engine trouble and was taking in water.
The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station,...
Fishing boat with engine trouble A MEMBER OF BALTIMORE, Co. Cork, lifeboat crew informed the deputy launching authority at about 1310 on Tuesday, November 11, 1975, that the fishing boat Dun Na Ri was in difficulty with engine trouble east...
Padraic Dillane With deep regret we report that Coxswain Padraic Dillane of the Aran Islands lifeboat died recently following a short illness.
A greatly respected and much loved member of the local community, Padraic first...
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Staff and customers at The Co-operative Food stores in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man took up the challenge of raising £90,000 in 90 days earlier this year, from SOS Day to the end of April.
From a...
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16 October 2011: RNLI lifeguards on Perranporth Beach, Cornwall, were called to help three surfers stranded in 1½m surf with a heavy backwash from nearby cliffs. Lifeguard Adam Taylor says: ‘We made our way...
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