This photograph of Rotary Service and City of London II was taken shortly after the Severn took up station duties at Dover and was the last outing for the Thames before her passage to Poole. - View image in PDF
Photo: Barry McGill. - View image in PDF
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THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in...
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FEBRUARY 20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At five in the evening the life-boat coxswain received a message from the piermaster that a barge with all her sails blown away was driving towards the pier. A westnorth- west gale was blowing,...
BOATING is rapidly growing in popularity.
Thousands have gone afloat for the first time this year. Doubtless next year thousands more will be doing likewise. In all the excitement of selecting and buying a craft of one kind...
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Vancouver’s icy slopes are a long way from the Isle of Man but a world-class snowboarder won’t forget home when she competes at the Winter Olympics
Zoe Gillings is full of anticipation as she waits for the start gate to...
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THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...
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FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, 13th day of March, 1883, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of...
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Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...