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Extended lifeguard season saves the dayBeach lifeguards at Perranporth were surprised to see a horse and rider galloping up to them on the afternoon of 26 October 2003 Two horse riders had been enjoying a sunny autumn day on Perran Sands...
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THE FISHERMAN
Sam Cully was fishing off the coast of County Down on 18 September when his boat started sinking.
The conditions were rough – there...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Whinstone, of Preston (1)
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...
Shoreline
IN THE LAST JOURNAL was published a photograph of HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, meeting the lifeboatmen who man RNLB Shoreline at Arbroath when His Royal Highness visited the station last May. On this page is another...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 6. Mr. G. L. Thomson, J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Stromness Branch
THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...
Category: Articles
Dry run
While the prospect of warmer Summers may seem appealing, the reality of global warming may be more severe flooding
In March this year, 70 members of the RNLI Flood Rescue Team helped test...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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The Late Mr. Charles Clifford
THE gentle CHARLES CLIFFORD, who, after years of severe suffering, passed away a short time since, deserves a few words in service on occasions when life-boats unassisted | the great value of his invention for Lowering " 'The...
Category: Obituaries
Thirty-Fifth Civil Service Life-Boat
ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...
Category: Inaugurations
Vagrant Gypsy
Dismasted yacht AT 1330 on Sunday August 11, 1985, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public reporting he had seen a yacht firing a white flare about a mile and a half south of Lulworth Cove. The coastguard at...