The first ever child of two ex-lifeboat crew members: Andrew James Louis Mitchell with his parents, David and Marjorie, on the day of his christening which was held, naturally enough, aboard Aberdeen's 54ft Arun class lifeboat BP Forties... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Michael Berry, St Helier On September 3, 1983, Coxswain Berry took his lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King, three miles in among rocks to rescue three people from the yacht Cythara in a force 9 strong... - View image in PDF
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Unmistakable, despite the Tarn o'Shanter disguise, Ronnie Corbett takes the helm of Eyemouth's Waveney class lifeboat which brought him to Eyemouth to open the ladies' guild's first ever gala last August. It was linked to the... - View image in PDF
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Staff from the RNLI's depot and headquarters gave a helping hand to the Children in Need Appeal on 1 December last year when they made a 'double circumnavigation' of Poole. The D class inflatable stayed firmly ashore, being... - View image in PDF
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Two incidents on opposite sides of the English Channel during January resulted in seven seamen being landed from leaking commercial vessels.
Safely ashore - one. The four crew from the coaster Manias are pictured (right)...
New recruits in at the deep end It was Gary Roberts' first ever lifeboat service and Dwynwen Parry was only nine months into her probationary period, but under the wing of Helmsman David Jones, they helped to save a family of four from...
Douglas, home of Sir William Hillary the founder of the RNLI, was one of the earliest places in the British Isles to be provided with a lifeboat. Hillary witnessed many shipwrecks there and established the lifeboat stations, himself helping... - View image in PDF
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Norman Salvesen was involved in a less hazardous, but nonetheless demanding, tow on 7 April this year when she successfully brought the 450-ton cargo vessel Eilean Mo Grhidh to safety after her engines had failed and the tide was sweeping...
A Wicklow family brought their yacht across Ireland by canal to the Shannon estuary in June. On the last Saturday of the month, the skipper stopped to erect the mast but drifted onto rocks 1½ miles east of Aughinish. Kilrush’s B class...
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New Covent Garden Food Co’s Smoked Haddock Chowder is now on sale with an extra ‘ingredient’.
Look out for the eye-catching cartons featuring Padstow’s Tamar class lifeboat and RNLI information in UK branches of Tesco,...
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