FIGURES already available show that the year 1958 has been similar to the two preceding years in the demands made on life-boat crews. When a record figure for peacetime of 745 launches on service was established in 1956, this seemed an...
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ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...
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• A new and expanded history of Penlee and Penzance branch entitled Penlee is just being produced and will appear before this spring journal is published. It is written by John Corin and Grahame Farr with a foreword by Mary Richards, mother...
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Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Active Membership The numbers of those joining the Institution's membership scheme have continued to grow apace during the early months of 1990, and the active membership now totals 27,142...
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PAGe tItLe RescUe FIVe ALIVe two miles from land, a group of kayakers was at the mercy of gale force offshore winds. How could they summon help and how long could they stay afloat? mairéad Dwane reports tHe DetAIL insHORe LiFeBOat B-789...
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Dear Editor
I wonder if you can pass on my good wishes to those three lifeguards who saved the lives of the 40 children and teachers on the beach with the disappearing sandbank. The Summer holidays would have been...
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Courage on our coasts
For nearly a decade, professional Photographer and volunteer lifeboat Crew Member Nigel Millard has been capturing the spirit of the RNLI with stunning images of our...
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When a rip current dragged a pregnant woman out to sea, Wicklow lifeboat volunteers sprang into action – and discovered she was not the only person with her life in danger
Wicklow’s inshore and...
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RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8.00* The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions I Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities I I Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor lifeboat...
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...