Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Teamwork saves three surfers Thanks on Vellum awarded to Newquay helmsman A;ombined lifeboat and helicopter rescue in Force 8 winds saved the lives of three surfers in January - including a thirteen year old girl who was suffering from...
A crew member urges the Severn class Lifeboat towards her destination, a burning tanker apparently on the horizon. Just metres away, the crew of an Atlantic 75 lifeboat works hard to right their capsized vessel It sounds like a scene...
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MFV 'Southern Scott, stranded on Old Bath's Beach just to the north east of Peel Harbour, Isle of Man, in the early hours of March 29, was by morning being driven further aground by north west gale force winds and pounded by heavy... - View image in PDF
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THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...
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On the 20th Feb. this Life-boat again performed most distinguished services in saving life. About 1 A.M. the usual signal of distress summoned the steam-tug GuidingStar, with the Life-boat in. tow, to the bar of the river. A gale of unusual...
North Cape & Land of the Midnight Sun Cruise from £699 Honningsvag, North Cape MV Athena 11 days departing: 13th June 2007 Sailing from Harwich - No Flying Five ports of call: Ålesund, Tromso, Bergen (Norway), Honningsvåg...
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BBC Television Appeal: Raymond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee and a member of the Committee of Management, aboard Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Arun lifeboat and surrounded by the filming and recording team during the... - View image in PDF
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The RNLI has pledged to provide every all-weather lifeboat crew with a 25-knot lifeboat by 2019. But the links in our supply chain are increasing and the availability of lifeboat building expertise is unpredictable. Our...
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Three saved from motor ship aground and awash off beachawash off beach Whitstable and Sheerness lifeboats were launched after the motor ship Johnno broadcast a Mayday on 12 January 1995. The vessel, on passage from the Isle of Grain to...