LAST year the R.N.L.I, sent two of its latest life-boats to Spain, the mission following a visit to this country by a Spanish Red Cross delegation to investigate the structure of the R.N.L.I, and to look at various types of...
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'Abandoned' airman retrieved from dinghy Cullercoats East Division Lifeboats and helicopters are frequent partners in rescue missions, so there was nothing unusual in Cullercoat's C class inflatable working with a helicopter crew...
Early this year the Failsworth branch of the R.N.L.I.
held a sponsored knit which raised £122. People were asked to knit nine-inch squares to make into blankets.
Altogether 500 squares were knitted... - View image in PDF
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The Cromer life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed examining a life-raft picked up during the service to the North Sea gas rig Hewitt Alpha on 15th November, 1968.. - View image in PDF
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Four very experienced coxswains were in London last May to be awarded medals for bravery. For all of them, Michael Berry of Jersey, Michael Scales of Guernsey, Michael Grant of Selsey and Thomas Cocking of St Ives, it was at least their...
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. . . and (left) a later Atlantic 21 after the design had been further developed by the RNLI base team at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
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FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY.—A telegram having been received from Tenby on the morning of the 30th March intimating that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the Life-boat City of Manchester was launched at 8.35 and proceeded to the...
Oh dear, oh deer On 21 May Bridlineton's D class lifeboat Bridlington's was launched after two deer from a nearby park took to the water when chased by dogs.
We reproduce the station honorary secretary's report...
Night tow AT 2033 on Sunday October 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station was contacted by Falmouth Coastguard and told that a yacht, Talahinna, had reported engine and rigging failure, some five to ten miles north...
AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Rocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...
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