An organisation funded totally by voluntary donations has a very special relationship with its friends.
Finding supporters, expanding and staying in touch with the supporter community is vital to the RNLI's future - as...
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The new Sheerness, Isle ofSheppey, 44' Waveney lifeboat Helen Turnbull was named on May 18 by Mrs R. D. Leigh-Pemberton, wife of the vice Lord Lieutenant of Kent.
A legacy from the estate of James Bissell Turnbull,... - View image in PDF
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THE Constantine medal of the Man- chester Association of Engineers has been awarded to Mr. R. A. Oakley, Sur- veyor of Life-boats, for the best paper to be presented to the Association dur- ing the session 1959-60. Mr. Oakley read a paper...
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Sunken speed boat WHILE FISHING with rods and lines from a 14' Dejon motor cruiser, Sandpiper, anchored 150 yards off Tan-y-Bwlch beach, about half a mile south of Aberystwyth Harbour, on Sunday, July 6, 1975, Richard Wheeler and John...
Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...
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Lord Albemarle Speaking at The Inaugural Ceremony of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Exercising with a helicopter from RAF Valley, the mountains of North Wales in the background.. - View image in PDF
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FOR THOSE AT SEA IN STORMY WEATHER.
" The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly; But yet the Lord who dwelleth on high is mightier." Psalm sciiL-v. 5,
THIS night, O Lord, we lift our...
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Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat City of Bradford III shortly before she set out at 1535 on June 6, 1981, to go to the help of the yacht Morag in difficulties off South Shore. Blackpool.
photograph by courtesy of David Forshaw... - View image in PDF
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