Last March Hayling Island station branched raised £1,008 with a ball Sinah Warren in aid of the Mountbatten of Burma appeal which was well supported by Islanders, by members of local sailing clubs and by members of neighbouring...
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Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
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CROY, DUNURE, AYRSHIRE. While working on Croy shore about 12.30 in the afternoon of the 20th August, 1942, two men saw an aeroplane crash into the sea about half a mile from the shore. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The pilot got...
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CUNNINGHAM'S Patent Mode of reefing Topsails from the Deck.—Most persons, even those who are not sailors by profession, are aware that the operation of reefing topsails is one of the most important on board a ship. By its means the...
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Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.
The...
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BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....
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THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, praised the courage of the Penlee lifeboat crew lost last December and of their families at the annual general meeting of the governors of the RNLI held in London on Tuesday morning May 11. The Duke...
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Head Protection (continued from page 265) including wind tunnel work; as a result an RNLI designed wrap around visor (see photograph, page 265) was found to offer the best combination of desirable optical properties and protection. NRDC has...
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To HELP THE RNLI The RNLI needs some £48m to fulfil its commitments during 1992 - and to raise such a huge sum of money from entirely voluntary contributions the Institution looks to a vast number of very varied sources. Flag weeks,...
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Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone Beach was...