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News
News Battered and brave A passing journalist captured one of the most iconic images of the RNLI’s history when he photographed the Scarborough lifeboat and crew in action in May 2005 (above). They were searching for a mother and her children...
Category: Articles
R.N.L.I. Delegation's Visit to the United States
THE Institution's decision to acquire a 44-foot life-boat of the kind now operated by the United States Coast Guard was a direct consequence of the international life-boat conference held in Edinburgh in June, 1963. At the conference the...
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Chatham Visit
On the 25 May 1996 a group from Flamborough, East Yorkshire, travelled to the Historical Dockyard, at Chatham to view the lifeboat collection.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hartlepool April 26 1987:
Hartlepool, April 26, 1987: Crew member Tom Price splashes champagne over Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Burton Brewer, following her naming ceremony.
The boat was provided from an appeal in Burton-on-Trent,... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported down, north of St. Patrick’s Causeway, but a search by the life-boats, aeroplanes, and an R.A.F. boat was without result. and...
Thats My Girl
Pictured above is Coxswain Malcolm Gray of St Davids lifeboat with his youngest crew member/daughter, Gillian, following the rescue of a fishing vessel last May.
There are a number of crews who consist of more than one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters (Continued from Page 65)
where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
Category: Correspondence
Every second counts
Two lifeguards raced to reach a kitesurfer as he was dragged under water towards rocks. Somehow they had to slow him down
On the afternoon of Tuesday 7 June, RNLI lifeguards watched a...
Category: Articles
RNLI News
RNLI's largest bequestThe RNLI has recently received its largest legacy ever.
The bequest is eventually expected to total some £6.5m, and will be a great help to the Institution in providing new lifeboats and...
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News and Views
SEA Check scheme goes coast-wide Why wait until you get into trouble before finding out how well equipped your boat is? That's the reasoning behind the RNLI's SEA Check scheme, which aims to give every boat owner the chance to have a...
Category: Articles