Diver, journalist and DIY convert Monty Halls tells Rory Stamp why he chose the simple life – and why he will always be grateful to the RNLI
When I step into Monty’s small Bristol office, I’m confronted with a toothy grin...
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Dragging in storm A YACHT DRAGGING her anchor in North Mouth, Out Skerries, 20 miles north east of Lerwick lifeboat station, in Shetland, was reported to the deputy launching authority by Lerwick Coastguard at 0051 on Tuesday September21,...
The lifeguards had been watching the kayakers for a while. It was raining on Pembrokeshire’s Newport Sands, and the only beach goers to keep an eye on were ‘hardcore’ dog walkers. Two men in single kayaks and two children, young girls in a...
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Injured and stranded on rocks at the bottom of a sheer cliff: for two fishermen there seemed to be no route to safety. But RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crew found one …
Thursday 6 August 2009 was more than a typical busy...
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New lifeboats named and dedicated Mudeford -Atlantic 21 Ken DerhamSaturday, 2 February will long be remembered in Mudeford as the day when the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was named Ken Derham. by her namesake. The day was cold and...
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HOW WE SPEND DONATIONS
It costs us over £140M each year to run our lifesaving service and, in 2012, we also spent over £35M on capital items such as lifeboats and lifeboat stations.
2012 FINANCIAL...
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Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...
Books Thorny's - an oral history of Vosper Thornycroft's shipyard, Southampton Edited by Krista Woodley, Padmini Broomfield and Sheila Jemima Published by Southampton City Council ISBN 0954394151 Price £12 hardback John I...
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By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.
The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...
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Thirty foot fall THE KEEPER of Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse telephoned the honorary secretary of Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat station at 1630 on Saturday April 28, 1984, to say that a man had fallen down the cliff at Holeopen Bay West...