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...
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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...
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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...
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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, 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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