Lifesaving is not just about pulling people out of the water. Saving lives by changing the attitudes and behaviour of children and young people has always played a vital role in the RNLI’s work.
As early as 1860 the...
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Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
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Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland.—At 10.40 on the night of the 26th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Winner of Holy Island, skippered by the life-boat coxswain, which had left at 5.30 that...
Sir CHARLES WILSON, LL.D., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the dis- tinguished services which he has rendered for very many years past, first as Honorary Secretary of the Leeds Life-boat...
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THURSDAY, 13th October, 1910.
Colonel Sir FitzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance...
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AT 1.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the Cromer coastguard received a message from the coastguard look-out at Cley that a motor yacht was burning a smoke distress flare some four to five miles north-east-by- east of the...
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In 2003 Chantal Carr weighed 20 stone. Just 4 years later she’d lost half her body weight, and went on to attempt to swim the Channel in aid of the RNLI
It took some straight talking from her...
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ON 22nd July last there took place the first telephone conversation between a life-boat at sea and the head office of the Institution in London. On that day the representatives of the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. visited...
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