IN a world in which good news tends more and more to be excluded from the front pages of newspapers, it is gratifying to be able to record that the R.N.L.I.'s record last year was one of consistent and outstanding success. The number of...
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1949 £ i. d.
188,742 6 4 289 10 6 52,029 6 11 7,139 18 4 173 15 10 84,005 5 4 16,391 1 - 880' 11 6 2,256 19 6 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1950 Expenditure ...
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Coxswain Blogg Twice Rams The Bulwarks of the Wreck and So Gets The Life-Boat Right Under The Rigging Where The Two Men Are. First One and Then The Other Jumps Aboard. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 11TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO. LOUTH. At 12.20 in the afternoon the Clogher coastwatching station reported, through the Civic Guard, that the sailing boat Lalzi, of Port Oriel, was in difficulty to the S.E. of Port Oriel. On board her were...
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 4.21 A.M.
on the 9th November, 1938, the coastguard telephoned the life-boat honorary secretary that a fishing boat was signalling for help off Ramore Head. A S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate,...
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the night of the 2nd of August, 1949, a moderately strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 9.50 the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties and had...
The paragraph headed 'Life-boat Up Thames' on page 149 of the July Journal referred, of course, to Kingston and Surbiton. It had been planned that those mentioned should be there, but in fact they were not, and the 'mystery...
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Tunes popular at the turn of the century fill the streets of New Romney every lifeboat day. This 80-year-old piano organ is wheeled out and operated by Mr E. N. Smith (I.), honorary treasurer of Littlestone-on-Sea station branch, and his... - View image in PDF
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Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...
On the morning of the j 4th October—a wild, stormy morning, | —the Charley Lloyd Life-boat of this sta- tion put out, and brought from the bri- gantine Mary Holland 7 men. Later on she hrought oh shore from the brig Eliza 5 men, besides a...