LIFEBOATS, IT IS OFTEN SAID, put OUt when other vessels are seeking the shelter of harbour. An example of how a lifeboat was able to carry out a mission while other well-found vessels were unable even to leave harbour occurred on the night...
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• Published to coincide with the Institution's 150th Anniversary, The Life-boat Service by Oliver Warner (Cassell, London, £4.50) is the authoritative account of the RNLI. Mr Warner has had access to all of its papers, and has...
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THURSDAY, 1st Oct., 1874 -. ; THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of One previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
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Launches 65. Lives rescued 43.
Februar- eeting.
Rossi "--• „ Co. Wexford.—On the 20th uoer, 1938, the crew of four of the motor schooner M....
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A NEW SETTING for the R.N.L.I.'s annual general meeting was the occasion for a major policy statement, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.G.B., D.S.O., took the opportunity of offering, to adapt an American political...
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Mablethorpe: After putting ashore two injured men from the grounded barge Almeco, Helmsman William Tuplin (I) and Crew Member Wayne Docking prepare to relaunch the D class inflatable lifeboat to return to the casualty. The third lifeboatman,... - View image in PDF
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Bronze Medal Coxswain Jeremy Rees cif Angle for a six hour service in gale force winds saving a passenger boat from 80ft cliffs and the lives of its four passenger-see TheLifeboat Winter 1997/98 for a full report of the service.. - View image in PDF
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Around the world More than 200 invited guests supported the annual autumn party organised by Woodbridge and District branch which was held at Woodbridge School on Saturday 24 November.
After enjoying refreshments they...
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Some ways of filling the coffers… Society pledge In 1990, the Bristol and West Building Society ran a vendor guarantee scheme whereby £100 was pledged to charity for every case proved where the society failed to meet certain standards....
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Lerwick, Shetland - The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth slipped her moorings on 15th March, 1969, to go to the assistance of three Norwegian fishing vessels. A full report of this service, for which each member of the life-boat crew...