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The RNLI’s Headquarters In Poole, Dorset
Open house The RNLI’s Headquarters in Poole, Dorset, is opening to the public on 21 and 22 July 2007.
This is a golden opportunity to see behind the scenes at The Lifeboat College, tour the different classes of lifeboat,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Visiting the RNLI/YLA Stand at the Southampton Boat Show Sir Alec Rose Founder-Member of the Association Autographs a Copy of His Book Lively Lady Which He
Visiting the R.N.L.I./Y.L.A. stand at the Southampton Boat Show, Sir Alec Rose, founder-member of the Association, autographs a copy of his book Lively Lady which he presented to Mr. Alasdair Garrett, secretary of the Association, for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Open All Hours...
The RNLI's Open Days on 23 and 24 July were more popular than in any previous year, with more visitors, more displays and more things to see than ever before. With free access to two separate sites accurate estimates of the numbers...
Category: Articles
The Screw Steamship Ingerid
The service of the same Life-boat on the 20th January, is thus reported in The East Anglian Daily Times :— "Those who were on Harwich pier between nine and ten on the morning of the 21st January, will not readily forget the scene...
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman
Bronze Medal Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman of Aldeburgh for the service to the yacht Red House Lugger on 29 August 1996 - see ThtLfftbott Winter 1996/ 7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eendracht
DUTCH COASTER AGROUND IN GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 20th December, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch coaster was burning flares and was drifting towards the...
Fair Mistress
Selsey, Sussex - At 11.50 p.m. on 6th July, 1969, it was learnt that two of the crew of four of the yacht Fair Mistress were very ill and that assist-ance was required. The life-boat Charles Henry was launched at 12.20 a.m. on 7th July in a...
A Gallant Coxswain
THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part X—Engines and Superstructure Fitted: Steering System
A CRANE MOVED into the boatshed at William Osbornes one day last autumn to lift first the twin engines and then the superstructure aboard the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
The engines are twin...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment at this new and rising watering-place on the coast of Essex— the local residents being very desirous to AND NEW LIFE-BOATS.
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Category: Articles