With half of its crew women, seven of its volunteers from the same family and not a drop of salt water in sight, Lough Derg is a unique lifeboat stationAt the turn of the Millennium the RNLI began to look at new ways to save lives, in...
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FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Oboerst.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend.
" Royal National Life-boat Institution....
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THIS is a true story, although the name of the life-boat station is not men- tioned. In one of the heavy gales of last winter one of the motor life-boats on the South Coast put out on service shortly after dusk and was out the whole...
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Mrs Ritchie, now an honorary life governor of the Institution, is welcomed aboard The Gough Ritchie, the second Isle of Man lifeboat she has donated, by Coxswain Norman Quillin.. - View image in PDF
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 24th day of March, 1888, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., President of the...
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THE FRESHLY PAINTED and polished 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat to be named Princess of Wales sparkled against a backdrop of gentle mountains, their tops dusted with a light covering of snow.
The low winter sun's reflection...
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New Brighton, Cheshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a New Brighton stage- man that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties near the...
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FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
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Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Next generation join dads on Douglas crew
Douglas Lifeboat Station, Isle of Man, has a history of lifeboating families. Sir William Hillary, who founded the...
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