A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
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On life-boat day in Manchester and Salford one of the members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, a city councillor of Manchester, delivered her collecting boxes, and took her money to the bank, in a baby's pram..
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The Tamar class is the RNLI’s newest and most sophisticated all-weather lifeboat, and its roll out continues. This year, Ireland’s first Tamar arrives at Kilmore Quay. Bembridge and Shoreham Harbour are also on the 2010 Tamar list and, in...
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A YACHT UNDER OBSERVATION in the River Mersey approach channel in the vicinity of C13 Buoy was reported to the honorary secretary of New Brighton ILB station by Formby Coastguard at 1655 on Saturday, October 23, 1976. It was foreseen that,...
In five years and three months of war our life-boats have rescued 5,895 lives from ships and aeroplanes. That is an average of 21 lives every week, or three lives rescued for every one during the 20 years of peace between the two...
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The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...
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South Eastern District.
CONFERENCES of Life-boat Workers in the South Eastern District were held at St. Leonards-on-Sea (for Branches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent.
Surrey and Sussex) on 4th and 5th...
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The picture above is for the Life-boat Christmas card, 1950. It is a famous rescue of seventy years ago. The Ramsgate life-boat is going out to the help of the barque Indian Chief, wrecked on the Long Sand on January 5th,...
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Mayday is the RNLI's biggest fundraising campaign of the year.
Our crew members don't do anything by halves; when the call comes, they drop everything to save lives. But...
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