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1st October to 31st December.
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BARNES (SURREY).—Concert.
BERMONDSEY.—Concert.
CLAPHAM.—Address to the Rotary Club by the Organizing...
Category: Branches
Tenby September 29 1986:
Tenby, September 29, 1986: Summer was officially over, yet on this day Tenby was bustling with visitors, and overcast skies cleared miraculously by afternoon allowing the sun to shine warmly on a town celebrating a very special event. It was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services (1)
MARCH APRIL AND MAY 1993 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: March 14 D class: May 24 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 13,14 (twice), 15,28, May 24 and 31 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: April 15 and May 30 Aldeburgh, Suffolk D class...
Category: Services
Launches
istings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Oct3 D-536:Oa3 ABERDOVEY B-754:Oc5 B-75ft Sep 12; Nov 28 ABERYSTWYTH B-70*Sepl2.15.20;Nov8 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28):Sep30; Oct 12,24.25 AITH ON-1232(17-14):Sep20 ALDE8URCH ON-1184(12-2S)Dec 16 D-52ft Nov...
Category: Services
24 hours on the Thames
Tower Lifeboat Station is the busiest in the UK. To find out exactly what life is like for the crew members that save lives on the capital's most famous waterway, Writer Catherine Richards spent 24 hours shadowing a shift ....
Category: Articles
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1873-4
lisions.—It appears then, that the number of wrecks, casualties, and collisions from all causes on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the surrounding seas, reported during the year 1873-4, was 1,803, being 401 less than the...
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RNLI News
Newspoint Ten years after the capsize of the Salcombe lifeboat the double capsize of Hartlepool's Waveney class lifeboat in February 1993 brings home once again that the sea is a harsh mistress, and that those who venture...
Category: Articles
Fit for the Job
The request for medical assistance from a German cargo ship led to a call for Margate's Mersey class lifeboat, Leonard Kent, on New Year's Eve 1 998 when one of the ship's crew had to be evacuated after badly breaking his leg...
Category: Articles
Membership News
Meeting the need Every year there is a rise in the number calls for help received by the RNLI's volunteer crews. In 1994 lifeboats launched 6,156 times - itself a record - but just a year later the figure for 1995 stood at 7,312 launches...
Category: Articles