The autumn 2005 draw was the most successful ever. Thank you! The income for the RNLI was a record-breaking £600,000-plus in just one draw. Thank you to all our readers who participated for helping to make this...
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The narrow stretch of water which separates England from France has long been a hub of marine activity, and lifeboat stations have been established there for nearly 200 years. Mike Floyd looks at the Dover Straits today and the way in which...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held an 'After Dinner at Eight' wine and savouries evening in June at the home of Mrs Margaret Adams (I.) at Herring fleet, St Olaves, to celebrate the presentation of a fund-raising... - View image in PDF
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SHORELINE MAKES PERSONAL LOANS PLAIN SAILING.
SHORELINE MAKES MARINE LOANS PLAIN SAILING A new boat? a refit? Or just a little help with annual expenses? Whatever your requirements, if you're an RNLI supporter you can...
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SHORELINE MAKES PERSONAL LOANS PLAIN SAILING.
SHORELINE MAKES MARINE LOANS PLAIN SAILING A new boat? a refit? Or just a little help with annual expenses? Whatever your requirements, if you're an RNLI supporter you can...
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THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
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FOLKESTONE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat station at Folkestone, in accordance with the wishes of the local residents, as an additional safeguard for life-saying pur- poses for that part of the coast, the...
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1. Poole's shore facilities are on the quayside, convenient to both the Atlantic boathouse and the Brede moored alongside it.
2. The yellow lifting cradle can clearly be seen during construction of the boathouse. It... - View image in PDF
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SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.
THE terrible loss of the Nbrthfleet, and of nearly 400 human beings, who had en- trusted themselves to her safe keeping, has strikingly indicated the need, which had often previously been felt, of some...
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NOVEMBER 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.30 at night the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands. A south-easterly wind was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...