Councillor Bill Wratham, the Mayor of Poole, (pictured left with David Brann, RNLI Marketing Manager) dropped by RNLI Headquarters in April to draw the winning tickets of the 89th national lifeboat lottery.. - View image in PDF
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It is with sadness that the Lifeboat reports the passing away of Dungeness ‘lady launcher’ Doris Tart (pictured above, front) on 30 April at Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital, aged 85.. - View image in PDF
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Actor Daniel Craig has publicly lent his support to the RNLI following a visit to Ramsgate lifeboat station (pictured centre with the crew). Photo: © Greg Williams. - View image in PDF
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Since their introduction in 2006, the RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat sea safety officers (LSSOs) around the UK and RoI have been saving lives through prevention – giving demonstrations and performing SEA Checks (like the one pictured...
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As the Lifeboat went to print, we heard that Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle’s successor when he retires in September will be Paul Boissier.
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Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...
Anglers in danger HAVING BEEN informed by the Seaham Coastguard, Co. Durham, at 1632 on Sunday, November 11, 1973, that a number of anglers had been cut off on the drum head at the end of the north pier of the harbour, and that they were in...
Both photographs were taken by Mr. J. P. Grant, inspector o{ machinery, from the fourth lifeboat in the convoy, the Lowestoft motor life-boat, on the passage from Ramsgate to Lowestoft.. - View image in PDF
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George Parsons, who served in The Mumbles lifeboat crew for 36 years and, more recently, has been head launcher for the boat. He was assistant mechanic from 1952 to 1957..
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NOVEMBER 1992 Captain J.F. Kersley, station honorary secretary of Queensferry lifeboat from 1967 to 1992. He was awarded a Gold badge in 1988..
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