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Above: An injured walker is stretchered down a cliff by the Coastguard cliff rescue to the waiting lifeboat.
This is just an exercise, but in 2001 RNLI lifeboats launched 446 times to people who had fallen from cliffs or... - View image in PDF
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CLACTON COASTGUARD intercepted a message from Warden Point Coastguard to Margate Coastguard at 1556 on July 15, 1974, advising that red flares had been sighted by MV Moreton Bay between No. 9 and No. 10 Buoys in Black Deep Channel. Mansion...
Six fishermen saved from stranded vessel in heavy seas The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Coxswain Robert Duffy of Howth lifeboat following a service to a fishing boat in Force 7 winds and heavy seas. The deputy...
Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...
THE LIFEBOAT MAN a New Character Study by Royal Doulton Govier's of Sidmouth are pleased to offer you this early opportunity of acquiring "The Lifeboat Man" from Royal Doulton's famous Character Study collection and at the...
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The Atlantic 21 has to be tough and reliable - the lives of survivors and crew depend on it. Claire Judd, Assistant Editor, visited the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes, to investigate the work that goes into the construction of...
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THE annual match for the " Baring Cup" was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 2nd April, on a ground kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co.
Ltd., at Charlton, Kent. The...
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Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI CEO retirement
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: Richie Leonard, RNLI/ (Harrison Bates, Nigel Millard, Nathan Williams)
CEO...
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Notes of the Quarter, by the editor 147 IlLiJ Beaufort Wind Scale 148 Lifeboat Services 149 XLIV Annual Awards 1975 153 456 A Weekend in September 154 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 156 Opening of new Headquarters at...
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