Lifeboat Lottery Leap into Spring! Tickets for the Spring 2007 Lifeboat Lottery are available from 16 January–16 March 2007, with the draw taking place on 30 March 2007 First prize is a Citroen C1 and the second, sponsored again by...
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SOS day 2008, on 25 January, was a great success. Thank you to everyone who took part and supported the RNLI’s national fundraising day.
Money is still coming in, so the Lifeboat can’t announce a figure for the total...
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APRIL 19TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. An angler had fallen into the sea, but only his cap could be found. - Rewards, £4 4s..
The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...
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Two new self-righting steel life-boats, each nearly 50 ft. in length and capable of carrying up to 100 survivors, 28 of them under cover, have been allocated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to stations in...
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Coxswain Upperton has twice won the silver medal. The first time was in the war of 1939 to 1945. In the war of 1914 to 1918 he was serving with the Colds,tream Guards in France.. - View image in PDF
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These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and...
Beach bother In August, when my granddaughter Victoria was on holiday in Dorset, she went with her mum and brother to a beach at Sandbanks, where she recognised some of the members of the lifeguard team from the photo in theLifeboat article...
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JUNE 28TH. - NEW QUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.
At 4 P.M. the crew and helpers had assembled for an exercise launch when the small sailing boat Idle Hour, of New Quay, with a crew of two, was seen drifting to the east of the harbour...