Island Visit Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, was a guest of Brigadier S. P. Robertson of the Committee of Management, at his home on the island of Orkney for four days in August. He arrived aboard Kirkwall'...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 18th of April, 1950, the police reported that a trawler which had just put out had run ashore and was blowing her siren. At 3.50, the life-boat Lloyd's left her moorings in a...
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TRAWLER BREAKS FROM MOORINGS IN STRONG GALE Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 5th February, 1963, Ilfracombe radio station informed the honorary secretary that the principal keeper of the Tuskar Rock lighthouse...
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Boat Show benefits! There will be plenty to see for RNLI supporters at the 2006 London Boat Show, which includes a day dedicated to the RNLI The show runs from 6-15 January 2006 at the ExCel exhibition centre in Docklands and the RNLI is...
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SHAKESPEARE compares England to a fortress, and the Channel to a moat; but if he saw the leviathan steamers now coming up that channel, he would be the first to acknowledge that the comparison did not hold good in the present day. We do not...
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COXSWAIN JOHN KING, of Bridlington, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four men from the motor fishing vessel Normanby on 6th January, 1967.
At 5.37 on the afternoon of...
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