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A helping hand After leaving the River Crouch on 22 October 19951 unfortunately crossed the Swallow Tail Spit too close to the buoy at 1530, two hours before low water, and went aground.
The sea was calm and apart from...
Category: Correspondence
Energy
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—The No. 2 Lifeboat Beauchamp was called out on service on the morning of the 23rd January and was launched at 4.20, signals of distress having been shown on the north part of the Barber Sands. On arriving there the fishing...
The next generation
How do young volunteers get involved in the RNLI of the 21st century? Life is not as simple as it used to be but the charity has a solution
Historically lifeboat stations were able to casually welcome enthusiastic...
Category: Articles
Special delivery
YEARS OF THEIR LIVES - CORRECTION
Many thanks to reader Mark Harvey who contacted us about the main image for the Years of Their Lives feature in the last edition. According to our archive...
Category: Articles
Windswept swimmer
31 August 2012: Both New Quay lifeboats went to the aid of a swimmer swept out to sea by strong winds and the tide. The inshore crew found the exhausted man 200m from the shore. The two crews then worked together...
Category: Articles
News
Busy first year for Thames lifeboats Thames lifeboats were called out over 800 times during their first year of service. This is almost three times as many as estimated prior to setting up the service on 1 January 2002. Callouts range from...
Category: Articles
Golden Charter
GOLDEN CHARTER Pre-Paid Funeral Plans THE CARING APPRO THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them. Not the burden of funeral costs,...
Category: Advertisement
A Boat
Disaster averted at Whitby When two lifeboatmen at Whitby station spotted a small boat heading seawards one afternoon in January 2003, they knew the crew of three were putting their lives at riskHelmsman John Pearson and Mechanic Glenn...
Sculpture from Scrap Has Been a Highly Successful Idea for John Perse Nee a Committee Member of Heist on Branch and Also a Shoreline Member Mr Persence A
Sculpture from scrap has been a highly successful idea for John Perse nee, a committee member of Heist on branch and also a Shoreline member. Mr Persence, a welder by trade, creates, in his spare time, model steam engines, boats and figures... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline
Shoreline Section WITH LITTLE publicity, Shoreline is now making a major contribution to the Institution's funds and it is hoped that this year enough will be raised to pay the cost of an offshore lifeboat.
Membership...
Category: Articles