NORTH DEAL. — It having been reported that a screw steamer was stranded on the Goodwin Sands, and signal guns having been heard during foggy weather, and a fresh S.W. wind on the 25th October, the Life-boat Mary Somenille put off at about 10...
Below: A rail traveller reaches for his wallet urged on by Brian Johnston, the broadcaster, whowas collecting for the RNLI at Paddington station. Photo The Times. - View image in PDF
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About 110011 on the 6th July the Coastguard fired the Life-boat assembly signal, and in response the crew quickly mustered, launched the boat, and at once pro- ceeded to the s.s. Lilian, of West Hartlepool, which was ashore in a very...
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At 9.28 at night the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities requested the services of the life-boat for a vessel reported sinking. A south-east wind was blowing,...
CAISTER.—On the 4th June a dense fog prevailed. It lifted at times, and in one of the intervals the look-out man observed a large steamer in close proximity to the Scroby Sand, and signalguns were fired from the Cookie and St. Nicholas Light...
When Dr Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife paid an informal visit to Whitstable ILB station on July 27, they went out in the Atlantic 21 and His Grace took the wheel.
Since the founding of the Institution... - View image in PDF
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Brian King, a member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, with three non-working models he has made, two for the RNLI and one for himself, of Margate's new 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38). Built mainly of... - View image in PDF
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Training simulatorThe future of training With lives at risk at sea, the RNLI takes its training very seriously, but serious training doesn't have to be dull or old-fashionedImagine you're out on a shout in storm force conditions....
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Today's lifeboatmen Michael Bowden, full-time coxswain of the Appledore lifeboat, first joined the station in 1971 as a crew member of the all-weather lifeboat.
Michael became an inshore lifeboat crew member in 1973,... - View image in PDF
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The Christmas break may already seem like a distant memory but readers will know that, while they were tucking into their turkey, many volunteer Lifeboat crews had given up the comfort and safety of home to save the Lives of others in coLd...
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