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1924: (right) On London's RNLI centenary flag day, the Duke and Duchess of York, touring collection depots, talk to Captain Lawson Smith, in diving kit, outside the Mansion House.. - View image in PDF
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 9.17 on the morning of the 3rd of June, 1951, the Castletown coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was in difficulties off Langness. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat K.T.J.S., on temporary duty at the station,...
Torbay lifeboat crew were called from their beds at 1am on Monday 19 September 2011 to evacuate a sick passenger from a New York-bound cruise liner. The liner altered course to meet the Severn class lifeboat Alec & Christina Dykes at...
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Ecclesiastical point I have been interested in the correspondence about Shoreline. I would leave things as they are. Certainly I would not want to have Lifeboat Supporters Club as a name because although we do not go to sea those of us who...
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Stranded horses towed to safetyFour horses were spotted without riders on the East Winner Bank just off the west end of Hayling Island, Hampshire in July 2003. With dusk approaching and a rising tide, there was concern for the safety of both...
Sir Samuel Kelly, the 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat on temporary duty at Courtmacsherry Harbour tows in Casse Tete V during the Fastnet storm. In all that day, Tuesday August 14, 1979, Courtmacsherry lifeboat, under the command of Coxswain... - View image in PDF
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Cromer, Norfolk.—27th July. A fishing boat capsized, and the two men on board were drowned before the lifeboat could reach her. (See September number of The Life-boat, page 318.)— Rewards, £7 11s..
The lue-boat calendar for 1942 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting ot life-boats of the Institution helping to bring off men of the B.E.F. from the beaches of Dunkirk. The calendar costs a l/-...
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Pwllbeli, Caernarvonsbire.—3rd September.
A steamer was thought to beaground on St. Patrick's Causeway, but was found to be at anchor and only in need of a pilot.—Rewards, £10 6s..