LAST year Life-boat Day in Greater London felt on the first day of the General Strike. Over £2,700 was collected, a large sum in such exceptionally difficult circumstances, but not half what it Lad been toped to raise. This year a...
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The delightful setting of Morton and Port Eynon. on the South Wales coast, serves to illustrate one of the benefits of the station's D class lifeboat - the ease with which it can be manoeuvred over that vast expanse of sand visible at... - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 9th January, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
The Committee expressed deep regret at...
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WITH the exception of Liverpool no Station Branch contributes so much each year to the Institution's revenue as Eastbourne. With a population of over 60,000 inhabitants, and a large number Instituof summer visitors, it has opportunities...
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In the New Year Honours List, the BEM was awarded to Frank Moore, motor mechanic of Barrow lifeboat since 1954. He was assistant motor mechanic at Barrow from 1937 to 1953.
* * * It is with deep regret that we announce the...
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ON the night of 9th December, 1886, three Lancashire life-boats, St. Anne's, Southport and Lytham, were launched to the help of the barque Mexico, of Hamburg, which had gone on the sands between Southport and Formby. A gale was blowing,...
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As was reported in the December, 1967, issue of The Life-boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, after their marriage left the... - View image in PDF
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Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.
Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...
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Torbay, Devon. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 19th of December, 1959, a local fisherman called at the coxswain's house to report that a 24-feet crab-boat, which had left harbour at two o'clock, had not returned. At 10.5 the...
Having a ball The Royal Solent Yacht club held its annual charity auction and regatta on 29 and 30 May - raising a whopping £15,480 for RNLI funds.
The weekend event which also included a ball, a barbecue lunch... - View image in PDF
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