THE Life-boat Saturday "season," DOW drawing to a close, has this year been an unusually successful one. The reports which we have received from all parts of the TJnited Kingdom clearly indicate that the movement has justified its...
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NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT has been a year of splendid achievement for the Life-boat Service, overshadowed by a great tragedy.
During the year the Institution gave rewards for the rescue of no fewer than 591 lives....
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Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land.—At 5.39 on the afternoon of the 18th of June, 1957, the Spittal police telephoned that a twelve-year- old girl was in difficulty while bathing off Spittal beach. Ten minutes later the life-boat William...
Whitehllls, Banff shire. — At 9.30 in the morning of the 21st of November, 1951, a fishing boat wirelessed that another fishing boat, the Speedwell, of Macduff, was in difficulties twenty miles north-north-west of Whitehills and at 10.5 the...
Stromness, Orkney.—During the night of the 9th—10th December, 1938, the Grimsby steam trawler Rinovia, homeward bound from fishing, and carrying a crew of nineteen, ran aground at Rusk Holm, Isle of Eday. Her signals of distress were seen by...
Announcement In this issue of THE LIFE-BOAT is an order form for R.N.L.I. Christmas cards and calendars and on page 175 details of new R.N.L.I. hand-made cuff-links and delectable R.N.L.I.
cook book mainly for the...
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The James Stevens No 20 at Queenstown. - View image in PDF
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LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney lifeboat, Barham, with Lowestoft lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Frederick Edward Crick in attendance. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Yarmouth Mercury'. - View image in PDF
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