Today the town of Hastings (famous for the battle) in East Sussex celebrates 150 years of RNLI lifeboats. Unlike the US Coastguard, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a private charity whose life-saving operations are completely payed for by donations & with some exceptions the crews are all volunteer. Hastings has a beach launched fishing fleet of small boats & between these, swimmers, pleasure craft & the mass of heavy shipping passing through the Strait of Dover the Hastings Lifeboat stays busy.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
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Today the town of Hastings (famous for the battle) in East Sussex celebrates 150 years of RNLI lifeboats. Unlike the US Coastguard, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a private charity whose life-saving operations are completely payed for by donations & with some exceptions the crews are all volunteer. Hastings has a beach launched fishing fleet of small boats & between these, swimmers, pleasure craft & the mass of heavy shipping passing through the Strait of Dover the Hastings Lifeboat stays busy.
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