The unexpected can often make an exercise more real than anyone intended. This is how Ramsgate lifeboatmen passed an extra test of skill with flying colours. Photographs are by courtesy of Jim Byrne, the story is told by Georgette...
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A snooker match worthy of Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis took place at the RA Range, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides. Eight members of the sergeants' mess played snooker non-stop for two days, pocketing £386.45 for the Institution as a... - View image in PDF
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FROM FAIREY... THREE KINDS OF LIFEBOATS FOR THREE KINDS OF CONDITIONS.
All built to the highest standards. Standards that have made Fairey justifiably famous as lifeboat builders.
All three have all...
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A volunteer describes her recent experience helping to preserve old photographs for future generations
What is your role?
I’ve been cleaning and digitising glass plates, part of a large collection of old lifeboat...
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JANUARY 28TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
The Norwegian steamer Faro, of Oslo, had gone ashore in Tarncliff Bay.
Deerness, but the crew of seven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus...
KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—This Life-boat station was transferred to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION by the Dublin Billast Board in January, 1862.
In April of the same year the Institution replaced the Life-boat then at...
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48 Hours of Gale (from page 250) Broughty Ferry: 1LB launched at 1700 in choppy seas and a fresh southeasterly wind to help a capsized dinghy one mile east of the station, The crew of three were landed and their boat towed to the...
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Storm Force supper: three young Storm Force members, who are also members of Wey Cruising Club in Gui/dford, decided to hold a Storm Force supper to raise money for the RNLI. The three girls (I to r) Sarah Fletcher, six, Meredith Lott and... - View image in PDF
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FISHING BOAT ADRIFT ALL NIGHT Khyl, Flintshire. At 10.38 on the morning of Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a call had been received for help from the motor fishing vessel Boy Bryn...
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