With a trawler in trouble off a remote archipelago in Shetland, Lerwick lifeboat crew would need to pull on insider knowledge and all their experience if they were to get the five fishermen to safety
Coxswain Alan Tarby’s...
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Bronze Tablet on the Memorial To The Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives On Service On 3rd December 1920. - View image in PDF
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Southend-on-Sea, May 2, 1986: on a brilliant day, with bunting splashing colour across the blue skies, Princess Anne came to Southend-on-Sea to name a new lifeboat after a local hero. She met and talked to station officials, crew members and... - View image in PDF
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To help their local life-boat day publicity campaign, Susan Gardiner, of Helensburgh, Linda Kelly, of Cardross, and Janet McMillan, of Helensburgh, volunteered to be towed about Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, on 6th June, 1970, in an IRB. At... - View image in PDF
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A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Persons rescued from shipwreck Time of ! Launching 4. 12.15 p.m. Valentia life-boat took a doctor and stores to Blasket Island.
6. 11.20a.m. Sennen Cove life-boat took doctors and a nurse to St. Mary's,...
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The famous 'Blue Peter' lifeboat appeal was made on 5th December, 1966. It asked for 60,000 paper-backed books.
The response was so great that the books, when sold, made enough money to purchase not one but four... - View image in PDF
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The Arun class is the most numerous of the RNLI's all-weather lifeboats.
Designed to lie afloat on a mooring 46 boats were built between 1971 and 1990 for use in every Division.
Although some changes... - View image in PDF
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Miss Julia Hodges, of St John's Wood, selling Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Barber a flag on London Life-boat Day on 21st March—Budget Day. Mr. Barber is, of course, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
by courtesy of Associated... - View image in PDF
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South West Division Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were...
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