Great Britain and Ireland

THE BALTIC EXCHANGE III LIFEBOAT APPEAL
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THE MILLENIUM APPEAL

A LIFEBOAT FOR OXFORD -
OXFORD LIFEBOAT APPEAL

• Boulmer Voluntary Rescue Service: Inshore Lifeboat
• Caister Volunteer Rescue Service Ltd (unofficial website)
• Lifeboats - Royal National Lifeboat Institution
  (unofficial website), with:
  • Press Releases from the RNLI
    (a list of RNLI press releases since 22 July 1993 in the RNLI section of Mariner.co.uk; it always is current and contains press releases which are not on the official RNLI website!)
• Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society (L.B.E.S.):
  • Official Website
  • An unofficial web page on the Falmouth Lifeboat website
    (subscription rates, postal address etc.)
  • An unofficial web page on the Galway Lifeboat website
    (with animated gif of an self-righting trial of an RNLI Severn class lifeboat)
• L.B.E.S., Norfolk & Suffolk Research Group, including the pages:
  • Lifeboats and lifeboat stations
    • Caister
• L.B.E.S., North West Research Group:
  • Official Homepage
  • News Page
• The Unofficial RNLI List
• The Lifeboat Experience - Preserving Maritime History For The Future
• Admiralscup: Lifeboats - Royal National Lifeboat Institution
• Irish Marine Emergency Service (IMES),
  The Department of the Marine and Natural Resources (DMNR)
• Irish Helicopters
• LOST (Loved Ones of Sea Tragedy)
  (LOST offers advice, comfort and support to anyone who has lost a friend or relative at sea)
• Stornoway Harbour (Hebrides): Rescue Services
• The Isle of Wight College: The Rescue Pages,
  with the pages:
  • Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service
    (unofficial webpage)
  • Ryde Inshore Rescue (unofficial webpage)
• Royal Air Force Station Kinloss: Nimrod Search and Rescue
• FireNet: Maritime Rescue & Fire Fighting
• BBC News: Stories matching the query "rnli"
• Daily Telegraph, 1997: "Weekend sailors top list of 1,200 lifeboat rescues"
• The Shetland News & Magazine:
  • 1^st October 1997, 19:15 GMT: Lifeboat rescues stranded Reefer
  • 19^th November 1997, 13:47 GMT: Reefer drifting towards cliffs
  • 20^th November 1997: Lifeboat coxswain tells his story
  • 23^rd November 1997: Wreck inquiry will sift evidence of tragic blunders
  • 22^nd January 1998: The RNLI Account
  • 22^nd January 1998: RNLI Gold Medal awarded to Coxwain of Lerwick Lifeboat
  • 10^th April 1998: Aith gets a new lifeboat
  • 28^th April 1998: RNLI volunteers from Scotland receive awards in London
  • 6^th May 1998: Ex-Norwegian lifeboat coming to Shetland
  • 21^st May 1998: Lerwick lifeboat crew honoured
• Skerries News Online - September 1997:
  New RNLI Boat Arrives
• Skyeviews Magazine:
  Portree Lifeboat
• Islay Lifeboat Naming Ceremony - Port Askaig 30 August 1997 ("Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit II")
• Ballyglass Lifeboat Naming Ceremony - 5 September 1998 ("Bryan and Gordon ") (or this URL)
• Naval and Maritime Museums: Great Britain
  (also lifeboat museums)
• Famous Northumbrians: Grace Darling (1815-1843)
• Bamburgh: The World's Greatest Lifeboat Heroine
  (> Grace Darling)
• Isle of Man Tourism: The RNLI (> Sir William Hillary)
• Visit Britain: Sir William Hillary and the RNLI (or this URL)
• Reason Magazine August/September 1994:
  Life Savings. For 170 years, a private British organization has been rescuing people at sea.
  (A tribute to the RNLI, also answering the question: "Why a voluntary service?")
• RNLI - 175 Years of Saving Lives
  
• 175 years of life saving at sea: A recall of one of the most dramatic and heroic rescues of the RNLI's long history
• Guernsey Post Office Stamps:
  RNLI - 175 years of saving lives at sea/RNLI - 175 Jahre Lebensrettung auf See:
  in English - in German
• The Lifeboats built by William Plenty
• 44-002 ex RNLI Lifeboat "John F. Kennedy":
  • North East Sea Angling:
    Charter Boats Based In The North East
    (also with photos of further ex RNLI lifeboats)
  • North East Sea Angling:
    Allan Skinner's Boat The Sarah JFK
  • Sarah JFK - Skipper Allan Skinner:
    Homepage, with the page:
    The Boat
• 44-016 ex Ramsgate Lifeboat
  (about the 44 ft. lifeboat type around the world and about the Ramsgate lifeboats)
• SP Technologies - Key Projects:
  • R.N.L.I Mersey Class
  • R.N.L.I. Trent Class
  • R.N.L.I. Severn Class
• Sharing Innovation: Severn Class
• Irish Marine Photography: Sea Rescue
  (mainly photos of Irish RNLI lifeboats of the Arun, Trent and Severn classes)
• The Irish Lifeboats Picture Gallery
• Photos of old Norfolk lifeboats
• Trent Class Lifeboat Rear View
• Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol (Australia): RNLI Lifeboats
• Bembridge: The Lifeboat "Queen Victoria" 1887
• Brancaster: Brancaster Lifeboat (1874-1935)
• Deal: North Deal Lifeboat (station closed)
• Douglas (Isle of Man): The Tower of Refuge
  (Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, had the idea of building this refuge, which is owned by the RNLI today)
• Douglas (Isle of Man): Rehousing the RNLI Lifeboat
• Dunbar: For those in Peril
• Fishguard: Air-Sea Rescue Exercise at Fishguard
• Hilbre Island's ex-Lifeboat Station
• Margate: The Margate Memorial - Surfboat: Friend to all Nations (with info on Margate Lifeboat also)
• Penlee: Shipwreck of the M.V. Union Star and the loss of the Penlee Lifeboat Solomon Browne
• Rye Harbour: Mary Stanford Lifeboat Disaster of 1928
• Closure and Co-location of Co-ordination Centres:
  • 21 July 1999: DETR:
    Review of the Five Year Strategy for HM Coastguard (Closure and Co-location of Co-ordination Centres)
  • August 1999: Liverpool MRSC Retained

Lifeboat Stations and Branches of the RNLI and Lifeboat Museums:

• Amble Branch
• Anstruther
• Aran Islands:
  • New (?) Official Homepage
  • Old (?) Official Homepage
• Arbroath
• Arranmore
• Baltimore
• Bamburgh: Grace Darling Museum
• Barra Island
• Barrow
• Barry Dock
• Bembridge (Isle of Wight)
• The Bridlington Lifeboats
• Brighton
• Buckie
• Burnham-on-Crouch
• Burry Port
• Chatham Historic Dockyard with "Lifeboat! The Royal National Lifeboat Collection":
  • An information page
  • A photo page
• Clacton-on-Sea
• Clifden
• Courtmacsherry
• Criccieth:
  • Official Homepage
  • an unofficial web page
• Cromer
• Cullercoats
• Douglas (Isle of Man)
• Dunbar
• Dún Laoghaire:
  • Official Homepage (or virtual homepage URL)
  • an unofficial web page
• Exmouth
• Falmouth
• Filey
• Fishguard
• Flamborough:
  • Official Homepage (or this URL)
  • Unofficial Homepage
• Fleetwood:
  • Official Homepage
  • an unofficial web page
• Galway (or virtual homepage URL)
• Hartlepool
• Harwich
• Hastings
• Hoylake
• Humber (Spurn Point) (or old URL)
• Ilfracombe
• Invergordon
• Islay
• Kilrush
• Kinghorn (or virtual homepage URL) - with page about Kinghorn's neighbouring stations:
  • Anstruther
  • North Berwick
  • South Queensferry
• Llandudno (or this URL)
• Lyme Regis
• Lytham:
  • Official lifeboat station homepage
  • Official lifeboat museum homepage
  • An unofficial web page
• Mallaig (or old URL)
• Morecambe (or this URL)
• Mudeford
• Mumbles
• Newcastle
• North Berwick
• Padstow
• Portaferry
• Port Erin (Isle of Man)
• Porthleven
• Port St Mary (Isle of Man)
• Prestatyn Branch
• Ramsey (Isle of Man):
  • Official Homepage I/Lifeboat Crew (or this URL)
  • Official Homepage II/Branch Committee
• Ramsgate
• Red Bay
• Redcar (or virtual homepage URL)
• Rhyl
• Rosslare
• Selsey
• Sheffield Branch
• Sheringham
• Shoreham Harbour
• Silloth
• Skegness
• Skerries
• Sligo Bay (or virtual homepage URL)
• St. Bee's
• St. Davids
• St. Donat's (Atlantic College):
  • Official Homepage
  • an unofficial web page
• St. Ives
• Stornoway
• Stourbridge Branch
• Swanage
• Tenby:
  • Official Homepage
  • an unofficial web page (or old URL)
• Thurso
• Tobermory (or this URL)
• Troon
• Valentia
• Walmer
• Walton-on-the-Naze
• West Kirby
• Whitby Lifeboat Museum
• Wick
• Withernsea
• Royal National Lifeboat Institution WEB-RING