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Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.
Several hundred...
Category: Correspondence
Pride of Helvick
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat five miles east of Ballycotton light appeared to have had her sails blown away. Ten minutes...
Athol, of Ardrossan
On the 29th January, the schooner Atkol, of Ardrossan, was observed riding heavily between Irvine and Lady's Isle. The wind was blowing from the N.W., with heavy squalls and showers of rain.
The Pringle Kidd life-boat...
Cruiser, of Hartlepool
The Bradford life-boat again went out and saved the brig Cruiser, of Hartlepool, and her crew of 6 men, which vessel had stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
'HE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have recently extensively circulated the following Queries on lie subject of the Treatment of Apparently Drowned Persons.
As it is thought the cause of science...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In 1930
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 91 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 100 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1931 62,533 The Life-boat Service in 1930.
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Category: Articles
Sinking speed boat
7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...
Category: Articles
Peeks of Bournemouth Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Contest, of Guernsey
On the 16th Novem- i ber, the brig Contest, of Guernsey, was I stranded during a gale of wind from the I East, on the Hook Sands. The Manley I Wood life-boat at Poole went out three | times and took off 46 men from the...