A CAREFUL or interested reader of the article in THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for last November, on the " Wreck Register and Chart for the year ended June 30th, 1884," cannot but be struck by the me- lancholy fact shown by the statistics,...
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LIFEGUARDS WORK WET SUMMER Despite the met Offi ce reporting the wettest may–July since records began, RnLi lifeguards in england were very much in demand. in particular, spring tides led to a number of mass rescues, one of which you can...
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Just seconds to spare as Cleethorpe's D class lifeboat races through the finishing gate. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Grimsby Evening Telegraph). - View image in PDF
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ON the evening of Christmas Day the Life-boat at St. Ives was launched in response to signals from the Godrevy Lighthouse. The Boat was launched over the soft sand with considerable difficulty, some of the seventy-five launchers going into...
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ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.
The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...
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On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.
That night nine Life-boats...
Modifications: Coxswain Kenneth Henry (I) is seen about to strike the first blow in the demolition of the old crew assembly room to make way for a new building. It is all part of a £650,000 project at Aith lifeboat station (Shetland)... - View image in PDF
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IT is only natural in this and other countries that the humane desire to improve the means for saving life from shipwreck should appeal to and occupy the minds of men -with a turn for invention or mechanically...
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THE Life-boat Service was on the air a number of times in 1950, both in broadcasts and in television.
In the spring the B.R.C. gave, in the European Service, a series of six broad- casts, in English and seven or eight other...
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16 October 2011: RNLI lifeguards on Perranporth Beach, Cornwall, were called to help three surfers stranded in 1½m surf with a heavy backwash from nearby cliffs. Lifeguard Adam Taylor says: ‘We made our way...
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