Since its opening in 2004, The Lifeboat College has become firmly established as the home of RNLI training. Crew and lifeguard training is the College’s most important purpose, but it has also been doing a fi ne job fundraising. Last year...
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Pottering for cash The Potteries Marathon, the second largest marathon in Great Britain, is attended by entrants from all over the British Isles and abroad. Mr Adrian Lucyk, a regular runner dedicated his run on 1 June 1996 to the... - View image in PDF
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON DECEMBER 23RD. - BALLY-COTTON, CO. CORK. At nine in the morning a message was received at the station that a vessel was in distress about five miles south of Power Head. She could be seen from Ballycotton,...
Maldon Little Ship Club's annual sponsored row, held on Boxing Day, produced a magnificent £9,760 in aid of the lifeboats - bringing the total raised by the sailing club in the last six years to £48,000.
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(Below) The naming ceremony cake baked by Sunblest Bakeries (Aberdeen); its top was preserved and presented to Mrs Betty Bird, wife of Coxswain Albert Bird.. - View image in PDF
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Rising country-rock star Sarah Jory (left) played a special solo acoustic concert on 6 October in aid of the Wells lifeboat-raising £1,700.
Sarah, who has been gigging non-stop in the UK and abroad for the past five... - View image in PDF
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Shenngham guards the eastern approaches to The Wash, its boathouse squeezed between low cliffs and a steep-to shingle beach. - View image in PDF
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Miss Heather ('Mickie') Allen with the carved shield presented to her on behalf of Cowes Base by boat builder Steve Simmonds at the opening of The Allen Centre.. - View image in PDF
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Staff at Dover-based Hoverspeed raised £2,742 for lifeboats during a prize raffle at the company's New Year's party.. - View image in PDF
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Pupils at Fowey Community School put their backs to the wheels and trundled a D class inflatable lifeboat 74 times round their school bus park. Photo Jonathan Barker. - View image in PDF
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