COMPLETE BREAKDOWN At 5 p.m. on 2ist July, 1965, the Deal coastguard reported that the yacht Kon Tiki II of Ostend had broken down two and a half miles east-north-east of the North Goodwin lightvessel and at 5.10 the life-boat Michael and...
Padstow lifeboathouse, at Trevose Head on the north coast of Cornwall, is at the foot of steep cliffs. On Sunday September 18, 1983, a new lift up these cliffs was formally opened by Captain P. K. C. Harris, HM Coastguard regional controller... - View image in PDF
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Today, RNLI lifeboats are designed and built in-house. Soon, we will be fitting them out and doing their maintenance too, as project leader David Price explains ...
The pace of change in our...
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THE present year (1861) came in on our English north-eastern coast in storm and fury. For the two last days of the dying year a tempest had been brewing; and on New-Year's Day, when we quiet city folks were exchanging "com- pliments...
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Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...
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SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes 2561.
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The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...
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As briefly reported in the July edition of THE LIFE-BOAT, The Duke of Windsor, who died on 28th May, 1972, was for many years actively associated with the R.N.L.I., especially between 1919 and 1936 when he served as President of the...
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IN December, 1859, the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION presented to Mr. CHARLES CLIFFORD, of London, a vote of thanks,' inscribed on vellum, in acknowledgment of his indefatigable exertions in inventing and...
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