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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ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...
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Each year, as supporters of the RNLI make their way home from the Institution's annual meeting and presentation of awards, there is a feeling that surely the achievements of that year cannot be bettered.
Yet, each year...
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Meet the team Lifeboat crew, shore helpers, station officials and fundraising volunteers stand proudly with their new Tamar class all-weather lifeboat, boathouse and slipway at Tenby in Pembrokeshire Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
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BBC Radio Cleveland's Lifeboat 2000 Appeal has now reached the target of €75,000 to purchase an Atlantic 75 class inshore lifeboat for Hartiepool.. - View image in PDF
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The Duchess of Kent opened the new lifeboat station at Whitby on 7 September. She also named the station’s latest D class inshore lifeboat OEM Stone III. Photo: RNLI/Tony Roddam. - View image in PDF
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Injured fisherman LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Barrow lifeboat station at 2232 on Monday July 16, 1979, that there was an injured crew member aboard the motor fishing vessel Vertrouwen, 18 miles west of Walney...
AUGUST 1910: DONAGHADEE station was established, its first boat being one of the earliest motor lifeboats in the Institution's fleet, a 43' Watson with a 40 hp engine capable of nearly 7 knots.
August 1975: it was...
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SEPTEMBER 2lST. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.10 A.M. a message was received from the naval signal station that an aeroplane had fallen into the sea near the north landing, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley...
OCTOBER 7TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.10 P.M. information was received by telephone that a fighter aeroplane had crashed in the sea. A few minutes later one of the life-boatmen reported that he could see a small object on...