Skegness all-weather lifeboat and crew. - View image in PDF
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Peel, and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—On the night of the 1st December, 1938, information from the coastguard was received at both life-boat stations that the tank steamer Pass of Ballater, of London, was in distress and needed tugs. A moderate...
A 'Mayday' Fair held at the Palmer home, Sarisbury Green, Fareham, in August brought in £600 for the RNLI. It was the idea of teenagers Stuart Palmer and David Peagram who, with the help of Stuart's sister. Carmen, set up a... - View image in PDF
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Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
STRATHEARN GLASS have created the above engraved block paperweight, designed and engraved by their Staff Engraver, Alasdair C. Gordon D.A. (Edin.), to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the R.N.L.I.
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The RNLI's lifeboats operate to 100 miles from shore – but who controls the waters they navigate?
Freedom of the Seas
Across the world, land has been divided by mankind...
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Poole lifeboats Inner Wheel and Sam and Iris Coles, involved in a sub-zero search of Poole Harbour for two missing fishermen in January. photograph by courtesy of John Buckley. - View image in PDF
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Berwick-on-Tweed: Old and new exercise together. The 42' Watson lifeboat William and Mary Durham was withdrawn from station to the relief fleet on September 17, 1976, being replaced by an Atlantic 21 ILB.
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At only 11 years old Katy Malcolm is the pride of Wick's lifeboat crew, branch and guild. Since September 1992 Katy, a member of Storm Force, has raised £650.83 by organising sales outside her parents home, raffling a doll and by... - View image in PDF
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As long ago as 1803 a Life-boat was stationed at St. Peter Port, in Guernsey, this being one of the boats built by Henry Greathead, the builder,'in 1789, of the first Life-boat. In 1861 the local Committee invited the Institution to take...
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