LADY FRANCIS OSBORNE, who died on the 13th of March at the age of 87, was an honorary life governor of the Institution. This is the highest honour which the Institution can confer on a voluntary worker.
Lady Francis Osborne...
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Mr. Barrie Bennetts, who had received the highest award the Institution can make to a voluntary worker, that of appointment as honorary life governor, died on the 26th of July, 1958, at the age of 75. He had been honorary secretary of the...
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Coxswain Joseph Parkinson of Lytham-St.-Anne's died while still in the service of the Institution on the 17th of March, 1959, at the age of 59.
He was assistant mechanic from 1931 to 1957 and coxswain from 1947 to...
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JANUARY 8TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
During the evening a request was received at the pier for a doctor to be sent to a naval vessel in the Bristol Channel. As no other suitable boat was available the motor lifeboat Rosabella...
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings continues his look at the Institution's shore facilities T;• he effects of coastal geology on the costs of operating the lifeboat service may not be immediately apparent, but the relative...
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The Licensed Victualler life-boat at Hunstanton saved the crew of 16 men of the barque Thetis, of Gothenburg, which had stranded on the Wool Pack Sand, about seven miles from Hunstanton.
Three anglers were about a mile out to sea in a 5m pleasureboat in Hartlepool Bay on Sunday 21 September. With their fishing rods poised for a bite, they were hoping for a good catch.
But their mood changed when the wind...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—28th February.
A sailing barge had been reported with her sails damaged, but she did not want help.—Rewards, £8 9s..
Walmer, Kent.—llth September. A steamer had burned flares for help, but when the life-boat reached her she did not need it.—Rewards, £10 5s. 6d..