Launches 33 Lives rescued 136 MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life...
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THE resolution of the House of Commons so unanimously passed last Session at the instance of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, on the motion of its Chairman, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., relative to the establishment of a...
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Look out for Danger on the Beach from 12 January - the second national BBC TV documentary series to feature the work of the RNLI lifeboats and lifeguards in Devon and Cornwall. Viewers may remember last year's moving report of the death... - View image in PDF
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When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
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The ladies guild in the small market town of Driffield raised £3.046 in 1978, making a total of £9.497 in five years. A cheese and wine party at the Trout Inn is one popular annual event. (I. to r.) Mrs H. Byas. honorary treasurer.... - View image in PDF
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Children from the class of Mrs Harrison at Bodmin County Primary Infants' School acted out the Grace Darling story for the rest of the school and, after making a "mile of pennies", they collected over £52 the Grace Darling... - View image in PDF
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Photographic proof of the unlikely rumour that a philanthropic gorilla was spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show. Whether it was fear that encouraged the public to fill his box or whether it was the irresistible music of his pirate captor is... - View image in PDF
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Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.
THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...
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The launching ceremony and trial run of a four-foot scale model of the Howth life-boat took place recently at Baldoyle. The builder, twenty years old Derick Riley of "Alverno", Strand Road, Baldoyle, Dublin, is a science student at...
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Mr. Edvard Lithander, President of the Swedish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked, who was one of the Swedish delegates at the International Life-boat Conference in London in 1924, has been compelled through pressure of business and...
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