Last Autumn’s issue of the Lifeboat introduced the RNLI’s experimental lifeboat FCB2. It is hoped this will evolve into the next generation of carriage-launched all-weather lifeboat, replacing the Mersey class. Unfortunately, the hull shape...
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(Right) Foreign coin has been pouring into Poole HQfrom collecting points generously set up last year by Lipton's at their 850 stores in England and Wales. (1. to r.) Numismatists John Phillimore and Colin Day with Cdr Ted Pritchard,... - View image in PDF
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AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the LORD MAYOR of London, on Thursday, the 28th of February, 1867, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.,...
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A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD boy, Arnold Togneri, has been awarded an inscribed wristwatch for the rescue of a girl off Dunbar, East Lothian, on the afternoon of nth April, 1965.
Arnold Togneri and two other boys, John and James...
Category: Awards
Twenty-six children, aged between eight and 12 years, from schools in Kuwait raised £820, half for Swanage lifeboat and half for RNLI funds, with a sponsored team swim. The children are all members of a swimming club run by Mr D. J.... - View image in PDF
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THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
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Jim Davidson and Cetrek MD Geoff Warde hold the cheque which funded the D class Cetrek - in which they are standing - at the London Boat Show. With them are Ian Ventham (nearest camera) the RNLI's head of fundraising and two members of... - View image in PDF
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AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 22nd day of April, 1852, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report of the...
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A heavy sea, together with a moderately strong S.E. wind, placed several of the local fishing boats in considerable danger when returning to harbour on the 4th August. The Life-boat Theo- philus Sidney Echalaz was launched about 10.30 a.m....
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 7.44 p.m. on 2nd December, 1968, it was learnt that the shrimp boat Boy David with two men on board was overdue at Southport. After further enquiries had been made the...