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Category: Advertisement
Queen
Shortly after 5 A.M. on 24th November a vessel was observed in the bay in dangerous prox- imity to the shore. The crew of the Life-boat Marianne L. Say were sum- moned and the boat launched. The wreck was reached at 6.30 A.M. and proved to...
Four Months of Gales. 174 Launches; 194 Lives Rescued.
THE past winter has been remarkable for a succession of terrible westerly gales. In their frequency and intensity they have been unequalled during the present century. October opened with gales on eight successive days, from the 1st to the...
Category: Services
Apex and Gloria J.
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.8 p.m. on 3151 August, 1966, two cabin cruisers were reported aground at South Shoebury. At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a moderate south westerly breeze and a...
Notes of the Quarter
DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Institution opened no fewer than 49 new stations and closed 11. These contrasting figures are evidence of the way in which the R.N.L.I. has been coping with the increasing demands...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Small Ads
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Category: Advertisement
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November and December, 1938, and January, 1939, Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Whitstable, Kent.—At about 11.30 A.M., on the 2nd October, 1938, the sailing dinghy Wana, of Whitstable, with one man on board, capsized about half a mile off Swale Cliff Rock. A moderate to fresh, squally...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th November, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Captain the Right Hon. Charles C. Craig, Mr. Norman Clark Neill, and Lieut.- Col. F. Rayner, D.S.O., T.D., as members of the...
Category: Committee
Meeting Place
The RNLI's 1998 Annual Meetings For the fourth year running, the RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 21 May, took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London.
Displays were set...
Category: Meetings
A Ship’s Boat
APRIL 22ND. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
At 7.32 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the St. Ismael’s coastguard that the Royal Observer Corps at Carmarthen had reported throughthe Ferryside Police that a...