Lifeboat crew help in dinghy tragedy Arranmore Ireland Division Arranmore lifeboat station has received a letter congratulating everyone involved for their conduct in a tragic incident on 29 July 1989 in which four young people lost their...
• A new edition of First Aid for Lifeboat Crews has been compiled by the RNLI Medical and Survival Committee and will be issued this summer by authority of the Committee of Management to all lifeboat stations.
This book...
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EARL'S COURT, LONDON, JANUARY 5 TO 15 RECORDS AGAIN BROKEN AT RNLI STAND by Heather Deane Assistant Public Relations Officer, RNLI THE SOUND OF BAGPIPES proclaimed the Scottish theme of this year's International Boat Show and further...
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The election of Miss ALICE MARSHALL, of Oxford, a Vice-President of the Institution, and of Major H. E. BURTON, of Tynemouth, an Honorary Life-Governor, is recorded elsewhere in this issue. The following awards have also been made:— To Mr....
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Disabled sloop in storm On September 14, 1975, we, the crew of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour which was in distress off the Needles, were rescued by the Yarmouth lifeboat.
No words or gestures can adequately express the deep...
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ALL GROWN UP
Back in 2012, photographer Nigel Millard took a picture of the children of Tobermory’s crew trying on their parents’ kit. Almost 5 years later, the station recreated the iconic shot. Alexander Anderson (second...
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Quietly spoken, Dave Peel far from dominates a room. But his natural modesty belies a life of daring action and passionate commitment
Dave started saving lives 40 years ago – as a Navy diver on...
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THE following letter was received last October from Ashington, the mining village in Northumberland. The Cresswell Lifeboat Station IB not far away, and most of the Cresswell Crew have at one time or another worked in theAshington mines. The...
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The North West Passage - who was first? I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West...
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THE TIDE WAS HIGH for the RNLI on September 26, bringing lifeboat people from round the coast, and many inland cities, towns and villages as well, to join with racegoers for this year's Ascot Charity Race Day. The six 'maroons',...
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