aunhtinastorm As high winds and torrential rain caused chaos across Britain on 7 July 2004, two people on their yacht faced storm force conditions 35 miles south of The Lizard, CornwallLaunching The Lizard Tyne class lifeboat was tricky in...
Throughout the RNLI's history the Annual Presentation of Awards has always made national news. Many supporters would have heard of a Medal for Gallantry or a Badge for voluntary work but Barry Cox, RNLI honorary librarian, has been...
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Mrs Instance, one of the Falmouth ladies' guild's most ardent collectors, and mother of one of the committee members, was photographed with lone atlantic yachtsman, Gerry Speiss, shortly after his triumphant arrival at Falmouth.... - View image in PDF
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‘Dance your cares away’ with these Fraggle Rock character keyrings, available from Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) branches during november. Photo: Laura Wiltshire. - View image in PDF
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Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...
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Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...
On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...
Predicting future technology is rarely an exact science. But we couldn't resist a peek into the world of 2074 – and what a lifeboat of the future might look like …
‘How, sir, would you make...
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To mark more than £10,000 raised by Devenish Brewery for the RNLI a special presentation was made by Chay Blyth, the round the world yachtsman, on behalf of the company to Rear-Admiral W. J. Graham, director RNLI, at Weymouth lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT Eastney, Hampshire - At 3.10 p.m.
on i4th May, 1966, a member of the IRB crew informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off the Royal Marine Barracks. At 3.15 the IRB was launched...
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