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Two Young School Girls Claire Durbin and Claire Wates Organised a Sponsored Swim on Behalf of the Rnli In the Swimming Pool of Button High School All Ten of The
Two young school girls, Claire Durbin and Claire Wates, organised a sponsored swim on behalf of the RNLI in the swimming pool of Button High School. All ten of the 10-year-old girls taking part completed the maximum half mile, and between... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part VI: Trials
EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...
Category: Articles
Righting the Boat As Part of the Capsize Drill
Righting the boat as part of the capsize drill. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two New Life-Boats Named
NEW life-boats provided for the stations at Islay (Hebrides) and Penlee (Cornwall) were formally named during the summer. The Islay ceremony took place on the pier at Port Askaig on the 22nd of July, 1960, when Lady Jean Fforde named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
Vellum for Trinity House Pilot
A Trinity House pilot at Alderney, Mr. Nicholas James Allen, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution incsribed on vellum for the rescue of 20 members of the crew of a Greek tanker.
At 11.30 on the morning of 23rd...
Category: Awards
Meet my lifesavers
THE FISHERMAN
Sam Cully was fishing off the coast of County Down on 18 September when his boat started sinking.
The conditions were rough – there...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (Continued from Page 12)
(continued from page 12) accorded to Coxswain Ronald J. Hardy and Emergency Mechanic Phillip J.
Dorey. Vellum service certificates were presented to Second Coxswain/Motor Mechanic Victor A. C. Marsh, Assistant Mechanic Eric...
Category: Services
North East South East (From Page 91)
assistance whenever and wherever it is needed.' There followed two unusual presentations to Coxswain Len Patten.
The first was a spare pair of gleaming propellers from the Bitterne and Woolston Round Table and the...
Category: Inaugurations
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When three people’s lives were in danger, off-duty lifeguards knew what to do
At 6pm on 16 August 2011, three lifeguards finishing their day at Porthcothan, Cornwall, advised everyone to leave...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Cflmene.—Bust oi Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyoji." Double legend, *' Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals