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Two west Cornwall RNLI lifeboat crews assist sea damaged fishing boat

Tamsin Thomas

Volunteer RNLI lifeboat crews from St Ives and Penlee were launched overnight to assist a fishing boat crew after their wheelhouse windows were smashed in by a large sea. The 40-foot Lola K from Rhyl in Wales with two men onboard was escorted to Newlyn with electronics failure...

Amazing success for Burnham-on-Sea 2010 RNLI SOS day

Mike Lang

Burnham’s lifeboat station’s second 2010 ‘Soap Our Saloons’ car wash, on Saturday 6 February brought amazing success with a total of £1,083. 70p raised...

RNLI Sheerness lifeboats launch

Barry Crayford

RNLI Sheerness Inshore Lifeboat launched at 8.28 pm (8 February) to a 50ft Vessel De Hoop moored in Queenborough Harbour with two occupants and their dog on board...

Awards for RNLI crew who saved a couple at sea

Richard Smith

An RNLI crew will be honoured for the dramatic rescue of a sailor washed overboard in bad weather.
Four members of the crew at Whitstable lifeboat station in Kent will be presented with awards and there is recognition for the efforts of the neighbouring RNLI station at Sheerness...

Success for Peel's RNLI, SOS Day

Malcolm Kelly

Peel’s RNLI volunteers and crew had a very successful series of events in conjunction with the national SOS Day.
A coffee morning held by the Ladies Guild raised £321 and a quiz night held by them on the same day made £350 and a collection at Tesco produced a further £223...

RNLI Calshot lifeboat rescues pair from blazing boat

Tim Woodcock

Calshot’s Tyne class lifeboat Alexander Coutanche was called today to rescue two people from a liferaft after their brand new motor boat caught fire off Calshot Spit.
The crew had just taken delivery of the brand new 38ft Meridian motorboat and were on their way home to Rye in Sussex...

Legendary yachtsman helps Humber RNLI celebrate 200th anniversary

Alison Levett

Legendary British yachtsman Tony Bullimore will be the main attraction at a dinner organised by Humber Yawl Club to celebrate 200 years of lifeboats at Spurn Point.
The evening, on 20 February at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Willerby near Hull, could raise up to £4,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution...

St Peter Port RNLI retrieve yacht crippled by an engine room fire

Tamsin Thomas

The volunteer crew of the St Peter Port RNLI lifeboat have recovered a French yacht after its crew abandoned ship following a fire in the engine room. The Anita Bomba was towed back into harbour after a local inter-island ferry rescued the people who had been onboard...

Porthdinllaen RNLI lifeboat launched for a third time in search for missing pensioner

Danielle Rush

RNLI volunteers from Porthdinllaen have just returned to station after being requested to resume searching for a 68-year-old woman, reported missing to North Wales Police. The Porthdinllaen all-weather lifeboat was launched at 1...

Top brass band to hold celebration concert for RNLI in Bolton

Alison Levett

The world champion Smithills School Senior Brass Band will give a celebration concert on behalf of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in Victoria Hall, Bolton on Saturday, 20 March.
The band, supported by the school music department, regularly raises funds for the lifeboat charity but next month’s concert should really hit the high notes as it celebrates 140-years of support for the RNLI in Bolton...