NEWSPOINT One only has to look at the names of the RNLI's lifeboat's to realise that a large percentage of them, indeed perhaps the majority, have been funded by legacies and bear the name of the donor or a close...
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Landmark ruling - is it a ship?The personal watercraft (PWC), often known by the trade name of jetski, is an increasingly popular mode of water transport. Partly resembling a motorbike, a PWC is ridden in a similar way and comes with the...
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Knighthood for RNLI Chairman The RNLFs chairman became Sir Michael Vernon when he was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's New Year Honours list in recognition of his services to the Institution.
Sir Michael joined the...
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Official visits The RNLI was host to several visitors in the early part of 1990, each with a different interest in the Institution and its work.
On 24 January Patrick McLoughlin MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
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(Right) A visit to St Mary's lifeboat station while holidaying in the Scil/y Isles 22 years ago began a lifelong interest in lifeboats for Mr and Mrs Derrick Waters. Since then, they and their children, Carolyn, Stephen and David, have... - View image in PDF
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At the time this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is published the Mersey, the RNLI's latest class of lifeboat, will be on show to the public at the London Boat Show in Earls Court.
in this article Keith Thatcher, one of the...
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Below The size of the latest boathouse reconstruction at Angle was one of the benchmarks when considering the new slipway class. In the event a lifeboat size was chosen which would fit in half of the existing houses - leaving Angle with... - View image in PDF
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HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, is pictured talking to (from left to right) crew member John Gorman, and Helmsmen Geraint Wheeler, Tom Ridgway, Sandro James and Cliff Bates all of Aberystwyth during a two day tour of Cardigan... - View image in PDF
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HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, visited Sheringham Lifeboat Station on 25 March.
The Duke met the crew, saw the launch and recovery of the Atlantic 85 lifeboat The Oddfellows, signed the visitors’ book and...
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New Chairman visits Poole headquarters The new Chairman of the RNLI, Mr Michael Vernon, visited the Institution's headquarters and depot at Poole on 31 August, to meet members of staff and talk to a number of station honorary secretaries...
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