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Monitor UV temperature, wind, rain, barametric pressure, humidity and more. Quick-view...
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Snap it up
If you’re a regular reader of the Lifeboat, you will know that the RNLI has a stunning collection of photographs, packed with drama, romance and humanity.
A selection of images is now available to buy in various sizes and...
Category: Articles
Pennies May Not Rain from Heaven But Pound Notes Floated Down Just Outside Filey With a Little Help from a Helicopter from 665 Army Helicopter Squadron from Topclif
Pennies may not rain from heaven but pound notes floated down just outside Filey, with a little help from a helicopter from 665 Army Helicopter Squadron from Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. Staff at the Topcliffe base had done a 44-mile... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishermen at War
No one knows more intimately the fishermen and life-boatmen of Whitby than Mr. Leo Walmsley, author of "Sally Lunn" and "Three Fevers," from which the film "Turn of the Tide", with its life-boat scenes, was made...
Category: Articles
Big sick, little sick
The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
Category: Articles
Here and There
WOLVERHAMPTON has launched an appeal to provide an Atlantic 21 ILB complete with launching tractor, trailer, boathouse, slipway and all operational equipment at Abersoch, North Wales, where many Wolverhampton people, on holiday, take to the...
Category: Articles
SAVING LIVES AT SEA IS A BIG HIT
Did you see Saving Lives at Sea?
The Summer BBC documentary was a big hit with viewers, drawing 3M in its first episode. For the first time ever, film crews were given an access-all-areas pass to the RNLI's stations, lifeboats...
Category: Articles
Commodore the Right Hon the Earl Howe (Right) Chairman of the Committee of Management from 1956 to 1964: As at Home In a Lifeboat As at An International Conf
Commodore The Right Hon. The Earl Howe (right), Chairman of the Committee of Management from 1956 to 1964: as at home in a lifeboat as at an international conference—or at the wheel of a high-speed car.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1881
THE RIGHT HON. EARL PERCY, M.P., IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(Vide next page for this list.) 2.—Moved by...
Category: Meetings
An Impressive Rescue at Newhaven
IT was just after dark on the 26th of March (at 7.12 p.m.) when the coast- guard at Newhaven reported a trawler drifting shorewards, something less than a mile south-east of the harbour.
Quarter of an hour later he said she...
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