A right royal occasion at PlymouthThe poor weather didn't dampen spirits when HM The Queen named Plymouth's new £2M Severn class lifeboat on 23 July 2003. The Duke of Edinburgh accompanied The Queen at Queen Anne's Battery...
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(Right) Foreign coin has been pouring into Poole HQfrom collecting points generously set up last year by Lipton's at their 850 stores in England and Wales. (1. to r.) Numismatists John Phillimore and Colin Day with Cdr Ted Pritchard,... - View image in PDF
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LIFEBOAT VOLUNTEER IS NEW LEADER
We are delighted to introduce Mark Dowie as the RNLI’s new chief executive. He succeeds Paul Boissier, who has retired after 10 years. As a...
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Reasons to celebrate The opening of Ramsey's new hoathouse in a ceremony on 6 April was much welcomed by all.
The new boathouse. situated at the north end of the south promenade, has been specially designed to house the...
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OUR life-boats can claim to be an inter- national service, not only because they have saved lives and vessels belonging to every country with a seaboard, but because the coins of all countries find their way into the life-boat collecting...
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With great glee and satisfaction three young lads and their fathers knock down a pile of coins worth £126 which had been amassed by the senior ratings of HM Submarine Courageous for Sheerness lifeboat. Doing a grand job of demolition... - View image in PDF
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Three Alderney lifeboat volunteers received top honours at the Daily Express Vodafone Life Savers Awards in October for their rescue of three people swept out to seaLifeboat Operations Manager David McAllister and Lifeboatmen Phil Murray and...
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Stepping up the safety message
The RNLI’s thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones to the sea in 2016. A summer of hot weather...
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JULY 3lST. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
After an aeroplane had come down two airmen were reported in the sea, but no trace of them was found. - Rewards, £11 6s..
NOVEMBER 24TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. A steamer was reported to have been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £40 5s..