A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
IN the review of Major Ernest Cooper's book Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was mentioned that the book could be bought from the Institution, price 3s. 6d. post...
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DURING 1937 sixty-six golf clubs held competitions in aid of the life-boat service and contributed £222 6*. 6d- Two more clubs held the competition than in 1936, and £25 more was contributed. The same appeal has been made...
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Thanks, Whitby (see photograph, page 187) I am one of the pupils of Brinsworth Whitehill Junior School and I am writing to say how grateful we are to the RNLI at Whitby for rescuing us from the cliffs on Tuesday, March 19. It was the second...
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THE editor of The Life-boat will always be glad to receive from its readers anything which they think it would be of interest to publish concerning the present or the past of the life-boat service..
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John McNamara, who spent three days without food while stranded on a rock in February, 1914 (see page 674). - View image in PDF
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Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every...
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Coxswain R. M. Evans, of Moelfre, and Lt-Comdr. H. H.
Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R., inspector of life-boats for the north west, pictured in London just before they received their medals from Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, for... - View image in PDF
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H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, once again attended the annual general meet- ing of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 2nd April, 1963. The meeting was an...
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