SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
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ON the 12th April, 1901, the fishing cobles belonging to Runswick, a small village on the Yorkshire coast, were afloat when a heavy sea sprung up imperilling their safety. It became evidently a case for the Life-boat, but unfortunately the...
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Meet some of the people who are getting our new lifesaving services off the ground
Portishead lifeboat has been running as an independent rescue service since The...
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NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...
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IN our issue for November we published the second list of the Gold and Silver Medals voted by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to officers of the Royal Navy and Marines, in acknowledge- ment of their gallant deeds in saving life from...
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Coxswain Gerald McLoughlin of Howth read one of the lessons at the commemorative service in the National Cathedral ofSt Patrick, Dublin. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Independent Newspapers. - View image in PDF
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Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
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EARL'S COURT, LONDON, JANUARY 5 TO 15 RECORDS AGAIN BROKEN AT RNLI STAND by Heather Deane Assistant Public Relations Officer, RNLI THE SOUND OF BAGPIPES proclaimed the Scottish theme of this year's International Boat Show and further...
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Below: The image of the lifeboat service that was most commonly chosen by the school children who were interviewed. The school children were given a number of different pictures representing ideas of the RNLI and the reality.. - View image in PDF
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely ty Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
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