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Bookshelf
The History of the Rhyl Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This is the second edition of Jeff Morris's account of the lifeboats and services in this wellknown North Wales resort.
As usual the...
Category: Articles
Exmouth: (above) Souvenir programmes, and a bouquet, are presented to HRH the Duke and Duchess of Kent
Exmouth: (above) Souvenir programmes, and a bouquet, are presented to TRH The Duke and Duchess of Kent. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Florya
GROUNDED YACHT THE Eastney, Hampshire, ILB on 18th June, 1972, went to the aid of the yacht Florya and rescued three people.
At 1 p.m. on that day Hayling Island Coastguard reported that a large yacht was standing into...
A Dinghy
100,000th life saved ON WEDNESDAY, May 28, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the New Brighton, Merseyside, honorary secretary that a boy was adrift in a rubber dinghy 200 yards off shore near Formby Point. The ILB was launched at 1435 in a...
The Duke of Edinburgh Chatting With the Life-Boat Crew When He Visited Plymouth on 22nd July
The Duke of Edinburgh Chatting With The Life-Boat Crew When He Visited Plymouth On 22Nd July. - View image in PDF
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Sunday service
What do you do when your boat starts to sink – so fast you don’t even have time to make a distress call? You hope there’s a lifeboat nearby …
It was a typical Sunday morning for the crew of...
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News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
NEW LIFEGUARD AND SWIM SAFE LOCATIONS FOR A SAFER SUMMER
RNLI lifeguards will patrol eight new beaches this summer, including Camber Sands....
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Their Busiest Day.
The busiest day for the life-boats since war began was a day in December, 1940. On that day there were nineteen launches. Seventy-one lives were rescued. Nine medals were won for gallantry, and the Institution made rewards amounting to £...
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TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so...