Around and about the RNLI Youngest crew member? Jonathan Foster achieved a long-held ambition when he joined the crew of Staithes lifeboat - the Atlantic 21 Ellis Sinclair-on his 17th birthday .
Clem James, station honorary...
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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 1.45 p.m. on 29th July, 1967, while the life-boat Lilly Wainwright was on passage to Conway, the crew were informed that a dinghy had capsized off Orme's Head.
There was a fresh south...
Jeff Davies – March 2016 Chairman and former Lifeboat Operations Manager at St Davids
Lifeboat Station
David Martin – January 2016 Former Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic at Donaghadee Lifeboat Station
David...
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Collections are being organised at over 500 Tesco stores in England and Wales of Green Shield stamps, the aim being to purchase 10 IRBs for the R.N.L.I.
Branches will be informed if these collections are being arranged in...
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DECEMBER 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea 3 miles E.N.E. of Lowestoft, but nothing was found, except a blue mitten which sank before it could be picked up. -...
neWs 21st century stations The RNLI’s Shoreworks team is continuing to update lifeboat stations around the UK and RoI, thanks to your support.
In Hoylake, Merseyside, a £2M appeal has been launched to raise funds for a...
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Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor My father and I witnessed the whole incident reported in ‘Between a rock and an angry sea’ in the LifeboatWinter...
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Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....
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DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels sailing from Aberdeen. One was a trawler, the Ben Doran, and, in spite of courageous efforts to rescue her crew, all were...
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