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The Life-Boat to the Rescue
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THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
Category: Drawings
Marion, Industry, Telegraph
The steamer G.K.C., of Noirmontiers, stranded on the Doom Bar on the 4th May. The schooner was first observed making for the harbour at 8.45 A.M., and, after rounding Stepper Point, she struck the Bar. The No. 1 Life-boat Arab was promptly...
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Trapped on cliff FOLLOWING A 999 CALL, HM Coastguard informed Coxswain Griffith Jones of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station at 2253 on Tuesday, August 31, 1976, that a boy was trapped under a rock at Porth-y- Nant. The coxswain informed his...
The Fourth International Life-Boat Conference
By Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.
SINCE the Royal National Life-boat Institution, in its Centenary year of 1924, organized the first International Life-boat Conference ever held, it...
Category: Meetings
William Furber, Former Coxswain of the New Romney Lifeboat; 100 Years Old on the 16th July, 1949
(See The Life-boat for October, 1949). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heroes All
THE following verses were written by Beryl James, of Liskeard, Cornwall, after seeing a Life-boat film. She was fifteen years old at the time, and was one of the prize-winners in the Life-boat Essay Competition last...
Category: Poetry
Three Metal Floats (1)
JULY 22ND. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. During the afternoon four young men, holiday visitors from Coventry, went out on three metal floats from Prestatyn. The sea was rough and a strong south-westerly wind was blowing.<...
Firecrest the 15' steamdriven Paddleboat Built By David Garrick She Is Powered By a Single Coalfired Boiler Developing One Quarter Horsepower
Firecrest, the 15'steamdriven paddleboat built by David Garrick. She is powered by a single coalfired boiler developing one quarter horsepower.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carl Palmby
Carl Palmby, awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum together with an inscribed wristwatch, holding a medallion presented to him by the Southern Gas Angling Society of which the man he rescued on February 27, 1981, is a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service In 1949
Ix 1949 the Life-boat Service set up a new record. Its life-boats went out to the rescue 639 times. That is the largest number there has ever been in time of peace. In time of war it has been exceeded only thrice, in 1939, 1940 and 1941.<...
Category: Articles