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Huge Expansion In Work of R.N.L.I.

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Huge Expansion in Work of R.N.L.I.

DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Royal National Life-boat Institution opened 49 new stations and closed 11. In roughly the same period the number of calls by rescue craft...

Category: Articles

Meggies and My Gratitude

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the night of the 24th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain super- intendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had reported red flares five miles north- east of the lightvessel. The life-boat City of...

H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.

Date: September 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 9

The death of the Duke of Kent in an air accident on August 2jth. is a very great loss to the life-boat service. Of all the members of the Royal Family who have been associated with it since its foundation none has taken a more generous and...

Category: Articles

Supply, of Stornoway

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

The same boat also rendered similar service, on the 26th October, to the crew of the brig Supply, of Stornoway, which was seen in distress, with signals for help flying, in Thurso Bay, during a heavy northerly gale. When the vessel was...

Close on £590 was raised at the annual Colchester flag day on 13th June, 1970,

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

Close on £590 was raised at the annual Colchester flag day on 13th June, 1970, and the earlier house-to-house collection. Both were organised by Mrs. Norman Clarke, secretary of the Colchester ladies' life-boat guild, whose husband... - View image in PDF

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