One breezy Autumn evening at dusk, a passenger vessel travelling along the River Thames collided with Tower Pier in central London. Upriver at Chiswick, another incident unfolded
At 7pm on...
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Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
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South East Division October hurricane BRONZE MEDAL AT 0559 ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1987 during the height of the infamous hurricane which hit Southern England that day, Thames Coastguard MRSC reported to Coxswain/Mechanic Robin Castle, of...
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Honorary Secretary, Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Branch THE crew of the Cullercoats life-boat and the people of Cullercoats and Whitley Bay are justly proud of their bowman, Ray Oliver. Not only is Ray a first-class officer in the boat, but...
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JANUARY 29TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 7.6 at night a telephone call was received from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Dunraven Castle had run aground on Iron Rock Ledges, Isle of Arran,...
At 9.46 p.m. on 1st February, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 16 foot motor boat with a 16-year-old boy on board was missing from Strand, Gillingham. The life-boat Canadian Pacific slipped her moorings at 10.3 in...
BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; HORN- SEA, YORKSHIRE; MABLETHORPE, LIN- COLNSHIRE ; MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND ; THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; and RAMSGATE, KENT. — The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these Stations have recently been replaced...
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SAVE THE DATE: AGM 2019
Our annual general meeting (AGM) will be held at Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in London on Thursday 25 July. It’s open to...
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Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...