Weston-super-Mare’s lifeboats were needed on 31 May when a family of nine, including six children, got stuck in mud at the mouth of the River Axe.
The crew of the D class lifeboat were forced to beach her alongside the...
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Trapped in mud TWO YOUNG GIRLS, Mandy Warren and Katie Flowers, were walking near Benarth Point on Conwy Estuary on Saturday morning, January 19, when, at about 0915, they heard shouts for help in the distance and shots being fired. They ran...
Dunbar’s lifeboat and crew took a hammering on their way to saving two lives in May – would their resilience win the day?
Jonas and Ingrid Åkerblom had built the yacht Ouhm themselves. They planned to take...
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The Life-boat appears again after an absence of just seven years. Its last number was dated April, 1940. In that month Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. At the end of the next month the British Expeditionary Fotce was brought off from the...
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A sense of new beginnings makes Spring a good season for the naming ceremonies of new lifeboats and this year was no exception.
Namings included D class lifeboats for Fowey, Redcar, Clifden, Aldeburgh and the relief fl eet...
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The following idea for 'snowball' dinner parties has come from the Younger Committee of the Central London Women's Committee: each member who is prepared to take part in this project gives 75p and invites a number of friends, who...
Category: Donations
Blue Peter IV is centre stage CBBC 8/ue Peter presenter Konnie Huq named the latest addition to the RNLI's fleet of Blue Peter-funded lifeboats at the 2005 London Boat Show in January. Gathered round the RNLI exhibition stand, the crowd...
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The South Bank Meetings 1989 The Annual General Meeting Presentation of Awards for 1988Once again the RNLI's annual meetings - held at the South Bank in London on 16 May - were able to reflect on a very successful 12 months for the...
Category: Meetings
Thirty-five years back • Reading the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT brings back memories of, incredibly, nearly 35 years ago. Memories of those hectic days may have become a bit mixed up by the passage of time, but I think it was in the autumn...
Category: Correspondence
SALCOMBE.—It having been reported on the morning of the 13th January that a steamer was ashore near the Start, the Life-boat Lesty was launched at 9 A.M., and when about half a mile off the Prawle, met the boats of the steamer Nordstern, of...