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Award winning RNLI volunteers receive keys to Moelfre Seawatch Centre

Eleri Davies

Moelfre RNLI volunteers were presented this morning (Friday) with the keys to the village’s Seawatch Centre by Anglesey County Council representatives. Today the RNLI officially takes over the building and volunteers will now be busy preparing the building to officially start welcoming guests next week...

Snatch of the day for Minehead RNLI crews

Chris Rundle

9th February 2012
SNATCH OF THE DAY FOR MINEHEAD RNLI CREWS
Two fishermen cut off at the base of 300 metre cliffs were snatched to safety by Minehead’s RNLI lifeboat crews tonight in an operation made more hazardous by thick fog.
And now station officials are pleading with all anglers to check tide times before setting out to fish along one of the most dangerous stretches of the Bristol Channel coast...

Alderney RNLI volunteers race 14 miles to international air/sea search

Nigel Soane-Sands

Alderney’s RNLI lifeboat Roy Barker I launched shortly before 4pm this afternoon (Thursday 9 February) to assist in an air/sea search following the reported possible sighting of a person in a life jacket in the sea 14 miles north-northwest of the island.
The Trent class lifeboat launched at the request of CROSS, the French coastguard based at Jobourg in Normandy, and was on scene in little over 40 minutes...

Two teenagers rescued by Falmouth RNLI from the rocks at Swanpool

Gerry Gearon

Just before 6:30pm on the evening of 7 February the Falmouth RNLI lifeboat crew pagers were activated. Falmouth Coastguard was requesting the launch of the inshore lifeboat to proceed to the aid of two youths marooned on the rocks off Swanpool...

Weymouth RNLI launch to injured fisherman

Ken Francis

The volunteer crew of the Weymouth RNLI all-weather lifeboat launched at 11.20pm last night (Wednesday 8 February) to provide assistance for an injured man onboard a Belgium fishing boat off Portland...

RNLI Queensferry welcome £1,500 donation thanks to Forth Bridge monitors

Hamish Campbell

Local residents who have volunteered to have vital environmental monitoring stations to measure and record dust, noise and vibration throughout the five year construction period of the new Forth crossing were asked by the Forth Crossing Bridge contractors to nominate a worthy cause to receive a donation, and they chose RNLI Queensferry.
Local residents Douglas Ross from Linn Mill, Mr and Mrs Mike Baynham, and Adam Cruttenden, the manager for Port Edgar Marina and Sailing School, nominated the RNLI Queensferry lifeboat station...

Weston RNLI volunteers man busiest lifeboat station on south Bristol Channel

Glyn Hayes

The waters of the Bristol Channel are some of the most dangerous around the UK with very strong tides, shifting sandbanks, large amounts of large commercial shipping and lots of mud. However the lifeboat stations around the Bristol Channel are there to keep people safe – with the busiest in 2011 being Weston-super-Mare RNLI station on Birnbeck Island...

RNLI Queensferry lifeboat is the busiest inshore lifeboat in Scotland in 2011

Hamish Campbell

The RNLI Queensferry lifeboat volunteers had a busy 2011 with 62 launches, rescuing 117 people, making it the busiest inshore lifeboat in Scotland.
The RNLI Queensferry lifeboat crew, who are on-call 24 hours a day, responded to a great variety of emergencies from rescuing a child stranded by the incoming tide, to yachts in difficulty, motor boats suffering engine failure, and saving three men adrift in the water...

40 years' service with the RNLI

Mel Cooper

A long serving member of the Port Talbot Lifeboat Station has been presented with a 40 year bar to his gold medal.
Phil Walker joined the station in 1972 and served on the lifeboat for 15 years when he stepped down from the lifeboat crew and became a member of the station's shore crew...

Lifeboat supporters go flat out for flippin' fantastic fundraisier

Danielle Rush

RNLI fundraisers in Tenby are calling on locals to support their annual pancake race next Tuesday (14 February). Last year, participants grabbed their frying pans and headed to Tudor Square for the 60 metre dash to the finishing line...