THE RNLI HAS SEVERAL small museums and display centres around the coast where those in search of lifeboat history can find model lifeboats, collections of paintings and photographs, perhaps some examples of equipment no longer used, or...
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The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., made his first trip in a life-boat and took part in a life-saving exercise at sea during his visit to the Isle of Wight on 21st October.
The boat was the Jack Shayler and...
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A HAVEN OR REFUGE on a dangerous coast along which small sailing ships in their hundreds once traded between London and the north; a commercial port for small merchant ships; a harbour for boats fishing the unpredictable North Sea; now a...
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A Central Appeals Committee of voluntary workers for the R.N.L.I. has been formed under the chairmanship of Mr. Norman Crumbie. Its terms of reference are: (i) To advise, through the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., on any matters affecting fund...
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Turn to the centre Listings of the Lifeboat magazine and you may be amazed at how often lifeboats launch. Only a tiny proportion of these ever feature in the Lifeboat. Here's a snapshot of the wide range of other lifeboat services...
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BLAKENEY.—During a gale from the northward, on the 21st February, the ketch Aid, of Hull, bound from Barton to London, was observed riding heavily at her anchors, 4 miles from Blakeney, with a signal of distress flying. The tide being out,...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 10.57 p.m. on iSth June, 1967, flares were reported in the vicinity of Horse Sand Fort. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 11.23 m a light south south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing....
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 9.37 p.m. on 9th April, 1967, news was received that the motor fishing vessel Gay Star had requested assistance eight miles north west of Strumbie head. Apparently her engine had failed. She carried a crew of...
"MAKING THE POUNDS GO FURTHER" "Faith, for a clergyman, is an essential ingredient of life. Hut back in /V.S'/ Vi'eiuly and I had to apply it in a more secular situation - whether or not to infest in HPR. In its early...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 114 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 62 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1933 63,299 Annual Meeting.
THE hundred and ninth annual...
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