Wells: On board Ernest Tom Nethercoat Coxswain David Cox explains to the president the use and working of a drogue.. - View image in PDF
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Launch of Bembridge lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Solent Jack Shayler and the Lees, photograph by courtesy of HMS Daedalus. - View image in PDF
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The caring approach to a sensitive subject 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...
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Elsie has been an education volunteer in the north east of Scotland for 2 years
What’s your day job?
I used to work offshore as an engineer on oil rigs, but I’ve been called to the ministry so am currently studying for...
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The autumn 2005 draw was the most successful ever. Thank you! The income for the RNLI was a record-breaking £600,000-plus in just one draw. Thank you to all our readers who participated for helping to make this...
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ON SUNDAY MORNING, November 18, the 50ft Thames lifeboat stationed at Islay and the 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Barra Island were capsized while going to the help of a 299 ton Danish coaster whose cargo of marble chips had shifted.<...
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Dispatches RNLI Photographer of the Year 2006 The first ever RNLI Photographer of the Year competition, open to everyone at the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units, recorded the drama of working in a lifesaving environment using...
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Blown offshore AT MERSEA ISLAND in the early evening of Sunday September 11, 1983, although the water was smooth off Cooper's Beach, a north-easterly near gale, force 7, was blowing off the shore and the tide was ebbing. At 1724 Thames...
(Right) One of 20 lifeboat models made by Jeff Morris and used in a number of displays and fund-raising events in the Coventry area.
On Sunday, January 30, the models farmed the focal point of a lifeboat service at Radford... - View image in PDF
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Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...