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The first recorded independent lifeboat service was established in 1776 at Formby, 7 miles south of Southport, where there is still an independent lifeboat service (see table). [5] Many early lifeboat stations were taken under the wing of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution after its foundation in 1824 and throughout the 19th and 20th ...
A couple from Surrey who are attempting to visit all 238 RNLI lifeboat stations have ticked off their first 100. Allan and Helen Thornhill, from Smallfield, are raising funds for the life-saving ...
Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS) is a volunteer-operated independent lifeboat charity based in Gosport, Hampshire, England. [1] It operates free lifeboat services from its station in Alverstoke covering the stretch of the Solent from Portsmouth Harbour to Titchfield Haven.
With the opening of a charity shop in Birkdale in 2005, the Southport Lifeboat have been able to continually update the kit available for the crew.. The Heather White's engine's were upgraded from twin 135 hp (101 kW) to twin 150 hp (110 kW) outboards, and are now continually replaced after three years of service.
A British-Canadian couple who were attempting to sail across the Atlantic have been found dead on an island off the east coast of Canada.. Brett Clibbery, 70, and his wife, Sarah Packwood, 60, had ...
An independent lifeboat service operated at Cleethorpes after the closure of the RNLI station, but an increasing number of calls prompted the reopening of an RNLI station on 29 June 1987. £45,000 was raised locally to re-establish the station, this time taking the original name of Cleethorpes Lifeboat Station. [8] Launching Cleethorpes lifeboat.
Since its inception, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has provided lifeboats to lifeboat stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.. Once past their operation life, the boats have mostly been sold by the RNLI and purchased for domestic use, marine businesses for usage such as further sea lifesaving functions, diving, fishing and pleasure trips or to maritime lifesaving ...
Bridlington Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat station based in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Having been instituted in 1805, it is the oldest working RNLI lifeboat location in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.