The RNLI has pledged to provide every all-weather lifeboat crew with a 25-knot lifeboat by 2019. But the links in our supply chain are increasing and the availability of lifeboat building expertise is unpredictable. Our...
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For her 1981-82 charity, the Mayoress of Canterbury, Mrs Owen Wildman, chose the RNLI as her special charity and raised more than £4,000 for Whitstable lifeboat station. Of that amount, her husband the Mayor, Councillor 'Biff... - View image in PDF
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Stranded children EDINBURGH CITY POLICE informed Queensferry ILB station at 1725 on Sunday February 4 that four children and their dog were stranded on Cramond Island. The children had tried to return to the mainland by the causeway but, cut...
LIFEBOAT GROUNDS TWICE ON GALE-LASHED SANDBANK Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate...
Category: Services
Luck of the draw The 45th lottery draw took place on Sunday 30 April at RNLI Headquarters and was attended by a coach party of voluntary workers from the Dudley Branch.
Mrs Felicity Irwin, Public Affairs Executive for TVS,...
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Mr. Angus MacVicar has produced a work which many people associated with the life-boat service must long have wanted to find, a gripping novel written for the young on the work of a life-boat station. This is Life-boat— Green to White...
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Desmond Carrington (right) digs deep in the drum for the winning ticket in the RNLI's 52nd national lottery draw. With him are Anthony Oliver (centre) deputy head of fund raising and marketing and Peter Holness, corporate fund raising... - View image in PDF
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ON September 6th the Brighton and Hove branch arranged a balloon race, with the help of Messrs. J. Lyons, who supplied the balloons. The race con- tinued all day, and among those who came to see it were the Mayor of Hove, one of the two...
Category: Donations
Launches 42 Lives rescued 16 APRIL 1ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMAPRIL BERLAND. At 1.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local fishing coble Fisher Lass was overdue. There was a dense fog, and a heavy swell was breaking on the...
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FOUR new motor life-boats, two of them gifts from Scotland, were named on the Scottish coast this year, at St. Abbs, Berwickshire ; Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; Eyemouth, Berwick- shire ; and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.
St....
Category: Inaugurations