THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...
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Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1998 Aberdeen Arun; Jul 4, 25 and 26 D Class: Jun 29. Jul 4 (twice), Jul 14 and 26 Abersoch Atlantic 21; Jun 9, Jul 18, 20 and 23 Aberystwyth Atlantic 75 Jun 9. 14 (twice), 20, 21 and...
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LANCASTER CANAL gateway to the Lake District and the Dales. Luxury narrow-boats for weekly hire or 3 day one-way cruises. Day skipper facility available. For details tel: ARLEN HIRE BOATS Scottish Highlands Inverewe Garden 6 miles Small...
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WHITBY.—A telegram was received at about 10.30 A.M. on the 19th January stating that a ship had sunk about sixmiles southward of this port, and that the crew had been compelled to take to their boat and come to an anchor. A message was sent...
cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...
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1st October to 31st December.
Greater London.
CHELSEA.—First Annual Meeting on 4th November at the Royal Chelsea Hospital, by permission of the Governor and Lady Lyttelton. Speakers : Major- General the...
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RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUN' PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account— Anstruther, Cromer, Ilfracombe, Kirkcudbright, Newbiggin, St. Abbs, Wells, materials for future building and...
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Unusual hazard Sir - I was skipper of the yacht Dalriada when she sank in the small hours of 2 July 1988 (Lifeboat Services, Winter issue), and was eventually transferred to the shore from HMS Battleaxe by Coxswain Billy Lennon and the...
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Reproduction of the Portrait of a Famous Coxswain.
THE Institution is preparing a Life-boat Calendar for 1931, which will be ready in November. In previous years the calendars have consisted of reproduc- tions of paintings...
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To give his MG. TC, the bodvwork of which he had been re-building, a 'jolly good thrudging', Bob Shaw suggested a run from John O Groats to Land's End in aid of the lifeboats; Ian Horsefield said he would go along as second... - View image in PDF
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