Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney lifeboat 44-001 on temporary duty at Gorleston returning from service to the Danish vessel Baltic, which had developed a heavy list, on April 8. Seven seamen, picked up by the tug Vanguard... - View image in PDF
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At 12.15 A.M. on the 2nd October information was re- ceived that a vessel was continually burning flares off Trevose Head, and appeared to be driving ashore. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were at once summoned, and the boat,...
Historic moment: the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat making contact with Sir Francis Chichester's yacht Gypsy Moth IV as she neared the English coast on 28th May, 1967, after her voyage round the world.. - View image in PDF
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The following is a list of the principal cases in which Rewards have been granted for saving life, by the National Shipwreck Institution, during the year 1851 :— January 2.—The emigrant barque Edmund, wrecked 19th Nov., at Kilkee, on the... - View image in PDF
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HORNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Horn- sea, in lieu of an old boat at that place, which was of an unwieldy and inferior construction, and in which the...
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All over the country, often far from the sea, members of a special RNLI team are saving young lives.
They are not launching lifeboats or plunging into rough water - but they need to be brave enough to stand up in front of a...
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Life-boat 70-002 at Ullapool - At 6 a.m. on ist February, 1967, a fisherman told the coxswain that a fishing boat had struck a rock in the vicinity of Gruisard Bay and was being towed towards Ullapool.
Although the crew...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 101 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 86 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 23rd, 1931 - 62,610 Sir George Shee.
His Majesty the...
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Actor Richard Todd (left) spins the drum before drawing the ticket for the winner of the R.F.D. inflatable 'Sportboat'—the prize in a draw organised by RFD-GQ Ltd., during the week of the Bournemouth boat show, in aid of the R.N.L.I.... - View image in PDF
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Lee Johnson, the owner of a hairdressing salon in Lymington, raised £180 for the lifeboats with a raffle for a doll's house. He sold £90 worth of tickets himself and Lymington ladies' guild sold the rest.. - View image in PDF
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