Birthday Honours The following have been honoured by Her Majesty The Queen in the recent Birthday Honours: For services to the RNLI QBE Dr Bill Guild - Life Vice President of the Committee of Management and an Honorary Life Governor (former...
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THE COMPETITION for the Renault STL car is still progressing well. The draw will be made at the Motor Fair at Earls Court on October 28 and the lucky winner will be published in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Your response has been most...
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By the time this issue of the Lifeboat reaches you, the Schroders London International Boat Show 2004 will already be in full swing. This year's event, which runs from 8-18 January, is special for several reasons.
Not...
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Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
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In the early hours of the morning Coxswain Malcolm Gray's pager beeped loudly. As he sat up in ^ bed he heard the clock strike four. Momentarily he wondered what on earth was going...
THE MAIN SHORELINE office has now moved from Salisbury to the new Headquarters building at Poole. This has entailed the movement of records and equipment and changes in clerical staff.
While we are, of course, making every...
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Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 August 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 2,058 times (an average of 9 launches a day) 585 lives were saved (an average of two a day) Some 6% of all...
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SKATERAW, HADDINGTONSHIRE.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat Station at Skateraw, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the coast of Haddingtonshire.
This was found to be...
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The Humber, Yorkshire. — 23rd October, 1939. A message had been received that a vessel had been torpedoed, and the explosion had been heard, but nothing could be found and it was assumed that the wrecked vessel's crew had been rescued by...
TAKEN BY LIFE-BOAT At 10.30 a.m. on 29th December, 1963, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to attend patients on Inishmaan and Inishere Islands. As the weather was bad and as no other boat was available the honorary...