Every year many delegates from overseas are welcomed at RNLI headquarters, Poole. One page from the visitors' book, covering just three weeks in March, 1979, records signatures of 12 visitors from the USA, Chile, China and the United... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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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...
Category: Correspondence
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
Stepping up the safety message
The RNLI’s thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones to the sea in 2016. A summer of hot weather...
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EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...
Category: Inaugurations
THE Fastnet race—famous among yachtsmen the world over for its tough course of over 600 miles from Cowes to round the Fastnet rock off the south-west of Ireland—is contested only by strong and experienced crews. This year there were nearly...
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IN MEMORY OF ROBERT THEOPHILUS GARDEN, ESQ., OP RIVER LYONS, PHTLIPSTOWN, KING'S COUNTY, IRELAND.
DIED 10TH OCTOBER, 1862, AGED 73 YEARS.
" Him that cometh (o Me I will in no wise cast out."...
Category: Obituaries
Sponsored walks, sails, silences, swims . . . Joan Manning, DOS (Midland Shires), greets Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, of Wrekin College, as they arrive at Worcester at the end of a 100-mile sponsored paddle from... - View image in PDF
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Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...