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Recruitment Activities This section of The Lifeboat is often used to describe the different ways in which new RNLI supporters are recruited and, as this year's marketing activities are about to start, it may be helpful to give an...

A Dutch fairground organ, 65 years old, has recently raised over £50 for the R.N.L.I. It belongs to Mr. A. B. Mason of King's Lynn, Norfolk, and travels round the Brancaster area towed by a land rover, with Mr. Mason in... - View image in PDF

The sinking lighter Elmsdale is on the right. The one man on board had taken to a small boat. It can be seen, nearly full of water, ahead of the life-boat. - View image in PDF

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NOW Available FOR THOSE IN PERIL The Life and Times of Sir William Hillary, Founder of the R.N.L.I.

Robert Kelly Illustrated by Norman Sayle £4.75 For Those in Peril tells of the early days of the Royal National...

PORT ERIN.—The schooner Lyra, of Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, bound from Liverpool for Dublin with a cargo of salt, missed stays, and was driven ashore on the Carrick Kock in Port St. Mary Bay during a terrific gale from the S.W. and a high...

Donaghadee, Co. Down. — On the afternoon of the 15th September the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was returning to harbour after her quarterly exercise when a small rowing boat was seen near Foreland Point. Owing to cross currents this...

Mrs Irene Lamont, former president of the Lerwick ladies lifeboat guild. She was chairman of the reformed Grimsby ladies guild from 1964 until 1983 and was awarded a Silver badge in 1982..

The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...