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Hartlepool RNLI recieve SOS lifejacket appeal donation

Malcolm Wallis

Heerema Hartlepool along with their client, Centrica Resourses Limited, have donated £3000 towards Hartlepool RNLI SOS Lifejacket Appeal.

Gary Waugh, Mechanic with Hartlepool Lifeboat, received the cheque and said: ‘This is a wonderful donation and thanks to all at Heerema and Centrica for their efforts in raising this money for the RNLI SOS Lifejacket Appeal...

RNLI lifeguards saving lives in Cameroon

Niamh Stephenson

While RNLI beach lifeguards take a break from life-saving on the North coast of Northern Ireland, RNLI Lifeguard Supervisor Tim Doran, originally from Armagh and living in Portstewart, along with his colleague Ross Macleod, RNLI Beach Safety Programme Manager, were busy teaching others how to save lives thousands of miles away in Cameroon.

The two lifeguards were part of a joint international project between the RNLI and the Swimming Teachers Association (STA)...

Tenby RNLI lifeboat launches after report of red flares

Bob James

Tenby all-weather RNLI lifeboat was requested to launch at 6.45pm on Thursday 2 February after Milford Haven Coastguard received a call from a fishing boat stating that red flares had been sighted in the St Govans area...

New RNLI Queensferry lifeboat station

Hamish Campbell

The impressive new RNLI Queensferry lifeboat station nears completion at the Hawes Pier, South Queensferry.

The new station should be completed by the end of February and, after acceptance by the RNLI, the new Atlantic 85 lifeboat, Jimmie Cairncross, will arrive from RNLI headquarters in Poole...

Oban RNLI and Yorkshire Building Society branch launch fund-raising year

Willie Melville

Members of Oban RNLI lifeboat crew and the Lifeboat Operations Manager met with Oban Yorkshire Building Society’s Branch Manager this morning to launch the Building Society’s fundraising year.

The RNLI is delighted that the Yorkshire Building Society has chosen the RNLI to be its Charity of Choice during 2012...

High Sherriff of Clwyd launches station lifejacket appeal

Richard Polden

The High Sherriff of Clwyd Lloyd Fitzhugh OBE, his wife Pauline, and Under Sherriff John Gregory visited Flint RNLI lifeboat Station on Thursday, where they met some of the Flint volunteer lifeboat crew members, station officials, and fundraisers from Flint, Holywell, Buckley, Mold, and staff from Sainsbury’s Flint whose charity of the year is Flint RNLI.

Following a tour of the lifeboat station the High Sherriff officially launched the Flint Lifeboat Station Lifejacket Appeal, and received on the stations behalf a cheque for £200 towards the £4000 appeal from Neil Schofield of Flint Service Station...

Night search for Lymington RNLI

Peter Mills

Shortly after 8.15pm on Wednesday (2 February), Falmouth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) received an automatic emergency signal from a westcountry-based fishing vessel, Blue Pointer 2, indicating its position as within the environs of the Lymington River...

Port Erin celebrates SOS success

Andrew Buchan

Port Erin RNLI is celebrating after raising over £4,300 in support of the charity's annual fundraising day. The impresive amount was collected during SOS activities which included various fundraising efforts by volunteers, supporters and crew over an entire weekend...

Newhaven lifeboat called out twice in three days

Alan Novis

Volunteers from Newhaven’s RNLI lifeboat station were called out to two vessels, which both suffered engine problems on two different days.
The first incident was on Sunday 29 January when the volunteer lifeboat crew were tasked at 12...

Kite-surfer rescued thanks to quick-thinking Hunstanton RNLI volunteer

Geoff Needham

Hunstanton RNLI lifeboat crew rescued a kite-surfer after the station’s volunteer lifeboat press officer spotted a kite drifting out to sea off Hunstanton at 3.22pm on Wednesday 1 February...