Ex-trawler ablaze THE HARWICH Waveney class relief lifeboat Khami was returning from a publicity visit to the East Coast Boat Show at Ipswich on the afternoon of Sunday, June 14, 1987, when the fiveman crew spotted smoke billowing from the...
Cdr Peter Roe, operations room officer, checks a position on the chart while Julie Mannd (I.), assistant boat movements officer, receives a telephone message from a station honorary secretary and Margaret Pearce, operations room assistant,... - View image in PDF
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Sjng I e h anded_saNor towed to safety Along and arduous service in gale force winds, heavy seas and wintery conditions in April 1998 has earned Paul Martin, the Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat the RNLI's Thanks on...
Rhyl couple tie the knot
Congratulations to Coastguard volunteer Andrea and RNLI volunteer Andy, who brought a whole new level of inter-agency cooperation to the shores of Rhyl when they got married in June. Andrea...
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Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI CEO retirement
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: Richie Leonard, RNLI/ (Harrison Bates, Nigel Millard, Nathan Williams)
CEO...
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A gala fashion show under the title 'The Rescue Operators' is to be staged at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Wednesday, October 1, in aid of four societies: St John Ambulance, Royal Life Saving Society, RNLI and Peter Fry Rescue...
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100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1889 issue THE LIFE-BOAT HOUSE The boats of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under...
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50 years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 1, September 1940 SUSPENSION OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal The Lifeboat" stopped publication after...
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100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT February 1891 CIVIL SERVICE LIFEBOAT FUND At the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th January last, and presided over by Mr.
Charles G. Turner,...
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40 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, April 1949 issue As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th oJDecember, 1948, the term motor life-boat will no longer be used. "Life-boat" will...
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