Christmas is a time when many people choose to support the RNLI by buying cards and gifts from the charity – but what makes these purchases different?
You might be familiar with the RNLI's mail order catalogue, but did...
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JUNE 4TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.45 in the evening the Needles Signal Station telephoned that pilots had reported two vessels ashore on the Shingles Bank. A moderate south-westerly gale was blowing and the sea was rough. At eight...
The Services contributed all the excitment and satisfaction of their precision d' 'ays . . . the Royal Artillery motor cycle team (above) at South London gala and (below) Sen Cadet field gun crews . . .. - View image in PDF
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Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor and navigator, made the award presentations at the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I, in London on 8th April 1970.
(1) Coxswain William Sheader (Scarborough) the silver medal, (2)... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 20TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
Flares had been reported, probably from an aeroplane, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £14 0s. 6d..
ST HELIER, JERSEY, August 23, 1987: the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King takes in tow the 48ft cabin cruiser La Belle Dame after a MAYDAY alert, when the Shoreham-based vessel hit the Hinguette reef at 1418 and began to sink.... - View image in PDF
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I was interested to read your article ‘Wind power in Shetland’. At a time when wind power, in the form of a proposed 150-turbine wind farm in Shetland, is the subject of much debate, I believe that smaller units to make individual operations...
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That the life-boat service is busier every year is now becoming a clearly established fact, and it received further confirmation in the first six months of the present year. In 1965 an all-time record for launches was established, yet there...
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THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND ITS LIFE-BOATS.
XLIV. BROOKS.—The George and Anne, 32 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, 10 oars.
XLV. BRIGHSTONE GRANGE.—The Worcester Cadet, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10...
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'Every man to the boat and every woman to the rope' used to be the cry at Newbiggin and, as a tribute to the past, for the branch's harbour fete in August the ladies dressed in traditional fisherwomen's costume. With the help... - View image in PDF
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