Two conferences were held in the Southwestern District during January. The first, at Newport, Isle of Wight, was a conference of Life-boat workers in the Island, and the second, at Exeter, of Life-boat workers in Cornwall and Devonshire,...
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IT is our pleasing duty to record, from time to time, the rewards which are conferred on our Life-boatmen by the rulers of foreign countries.
The latest instance is a gracious act on the part of H.M. the King of Norway in...
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The RNLI is preparing for Summer with its updated beach safety messages.
Last year’s Beachwise message – to always swim at a lifeguarded beach – reached more than 25M people through its radio launch. At the end of the...
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WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...
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February Meeting.
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 5.45 P.M.
on the 10th January, 1938, the life-boat mechanic heard cries for help, appar- ently from a trawler on the west side of the Wyre Channel, and he, the...
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Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 7th May, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht, with a crew cf two, off Marske appeared to have broken her top mast. There was a westerly gale with a...
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Cflmene.—Bust oi Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyoji." Double legend, *' Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
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Coxswain Mark Bates. In front: Mr. John Crook (see page 72). - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...
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For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 5 P.M. on the 21st August, an open out- board motor boat, with three men and...
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