Padstow, Cornwall - At 5.51 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, a small yacht was reported in difficulties on the north side of Harlyn bay. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick slipped her moorings at 6.14 in a moderate north easterly breeze and a...
NOVEMBER 23RD. - TENBY, PEM-BROKESHIRE. A ship's boat with men on board, thought to be from a vessel which had been sunk by enemy action, was reported to be drifting off St. Govan’s Head, but nothing was found. Later it was learned that...
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — About 8.30 in the evening of the 1st of De- cember, 1948, The Mumbles coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Tungenes, of Stavanger, had reported that she was aground off Llanelly, with her rudder broken, and the...
BY the death on 13th August, at the age of 79, of the Right Hon. the Earl Waldegrave, P.O., a Vice-President of the Institution and the Chairman of its Committee of Management for twelve years, the Life-boat Service lost a generous friend...
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IN the old church of Prestwich, Lanca- shire, Sir EDWARD TOOTALBROADHURST, Bt., D.L., J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Branch, was laid to rest on the 6th February last, and a crowded congregation testi- fied to the...
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With deep regret we record the following deaths: DECEMBER 1991 Miss G. MacDonald, founder of the Peebles branch in 1949. She was branch vice president from 1970 until a few weeks before her death when she became branch honorary life...
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All Honorary Secretaries of Branches and Ladies' Life-boat Guilds and all subscribers of ten shillings and over are entitled to receive THE LIFEBOAT quarterly free.
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NEALES OF NOTTINGHAM in conjunction with the RNLI Nottingham and District branch and Nottingham Building Society arranged a celebration balloon flight on June 3, 1983, to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the Montgolfier...
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There are no monthly repayments with the Equity Advance Plan1 A tax-free cash lump sum Option of a guaranteed monthly income Continue to live in your own home Still provide for your family in your will You know up front the proportion that...
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Sheerness Trent named by HRH The Duke of Kent KG Even the dark clouds and splatters of rain decided to clear and let the sunshine smile on the new Trent class lifeboat at her naming ceremony on Wednesday 11 September.
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