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Rnli National Lottery
THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, came to Poole headquarters on Wednesday October 31 to draw the 20 winners of the twenty-seventh national lottery. More than £45,000 had been raised and the chairman was successful in drawing...
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New man at helm
The RNLI’s new Chief Executive Paul Boissier has been in post since September 2009. He tells the Lifeboat: ‘This job is all about stewardship.
In time I’ll need to hand over the charity in as good a shape as it is today....
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The Recent Storms
OF all the stormy periods which have found noble work for our Life-boat Fleet, and which have tried the mettle of the brave fellows by whom it is manned, perhaps none have exceeded in violence and destructiveness that of the last few weeks....
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From the Foreign Life-Boat Societies. The Use of Oil on a Heavy Sea
THE annual report of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society for 1926 contains the following account of an arduous service by the new Motor Life-boat Brandaris stationed at Terschelling: " On receipt of a communication from the...
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Two lifeboats rescue family and dogs from cliffface in heavy surf Both of Newquay's inshore lifeboats were involved in rescuing two adults, a baby and two dogs from a cliff after they had been cut off by the tide at Bedruthan steps on 30...
H.M. Trawler Pearl and H.M.S. Viva II
MAY 8TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Shortly after 4 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to meet a trawler due at St. Ives at 5 o’clock with survivors on board...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.32 p.m.
on 25th February, 1966, the Caldy island steward informed the honorary secretary that the sea was too rough for the normal ferry service to take an injured boy to the mainland and...
Memosa
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the motor boat Memosa was drifting out of control off Ragan Point. At 5.40 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched...