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Regular customers of the Brewery Shades pub, Crawley, raised £89 by dropping coins and notes behind a glass screen in the bar.

A competition to guess how much was behind the screen was won by Rufus, a dog.

Padstow: On the morning of January 26 the local fishing vessel Lamorna ran into difficulties when a rope got wrapped round her propeller about three quarters of a mile off Newquay Head.

She put out an anchor to await help... - View image in PDF

At midday on 2 January 2002, RNLI lifeboats became operational on the River Thames. For the first time, the capital has a 24-hour dedicated rapid response service on its river. There are four lifeboat stations, at Gravesend, Tower Pier,...

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We are delighted to introduce Mark Dowie as the RNLI’s new chief executive. He succeeds Paul Boissier, who has retired after 10 years. As a...

A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...

London lifeboats boost rescues The Lifeboats had another busy year in 2002, with crews rescuing 7,365 people. In their first full year of operations. Beach Rescue lifeguards were involved in 867 major incidents and saved 22...

Lytham St. Annes.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a yacht was aground on the south side of the Riddle Estuary. It could be seen that she was dried out close up to the South Training...

Man overboard! This is the cry no seagoer wants to hear but how much worse would it be to know that, as you slipped and fell into the water, no one knew you had gone? The lone fisherman or yachtsman has always been in grave danger if they...