A newly opened branch of Halifax Estate Agency in Penarth pledged £10 to Penarth lifeboat station for each of the first 25 houses placed with the office on a sole agency.
Manageress Estelle Pemberton is pictured at... - View image in PDF
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Lieut-Commander P E Vaux DSC RN Inspector of Life-Boats For The Irish District Bronze Medallist. - View image in PDF
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Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLl and triple gold-medallist, himself saved more than 300 people from drowning..
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'In 1923 . . . the Prince gave his permission for all life-boat days to be known as Prince of Wales Day.'. - View image in PDF
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Veteran of the Rohilla rescue, Henry Vernon, renamed, Rohilla, and photographed in 1935 when she was privately owned.. - View image in PDF
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Above: In force 5–6 winds, Anthon leaves the protection of the Myrtle Maud and takes to the Y boat. - View image in PDF
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MARCH No. 2 Life-boat Area Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 4.30 p.m. on 28th March, 1970, the life-boat's motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was signalling for assistance off Scarlet point. After confirmation...
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In August the Institution opened a new station on the west coast of Ireland at Killybegs, in Donegal Bay, and stationed there one of its most powerful motor life-boats, a 5i-feet Barnett cabin boat with two 60 h.p. engines. She is the...
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The lifeguards Mr and Mrs Painter met in The Gambia were among 30 amazing volunteers trained there by the RNLI in 2013.
The Gambian lifeguards also received some basic rescue equipment from the...
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Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 5.15 in the evening, on the 81 st of January, 1951, a message from the village of Bayble came through the Garrabost Post Office that a fishing boat was in difficulties off Bayble Head. Another fishing boat...