Before daybreak on the morning of the 28th January the Life-boat Mary Stirling was launched in reply to signals of distress exhibited by the barque Dunmore, of London, bound from London to New Zealand, which ran on shore near Pevensey...
IT was only in March last that H.K.H.
The PRINCE of WALES very graciously accepted the post of President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in succession to the late lamented DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, and at once...
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REPRESENTATIONS having been made to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION regarding the crews of its life-boats making claims on owners for rescuing the crews of their wrecked vessels in cases where property of trifling...
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Held in the grounds of Peel Castle, Isle of Man. - View image in PDF
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St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head.
DURING September four Inaugural Cere- monies of Motor Life-boats took place, making a total of twenty-two such cere- monies held this year. The accounts of the other...
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HELP US TO RAISE £15.OOO for the RNLI The Special Limited Edition ADDRESS BOOK For more than a century, Lifeboatmen have been combatting the seas and elements, saving lives - often at the risk of their own. As a special tribute to their...
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Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to be in difficul- ties in Hoy Sound. The honorary secretary, the coxswain and the motor mechanic drove...
AUGUST 30TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.30 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the rowing boat Dorothy II, about one mile east of North Cheek, Robin Hood’s Bay, was showing a coat on an oar. A strong...
THE seaboard of Cornwall can present two faces—the milder one—that usually seen by the summer visitor—is a pleasant one of sun-baked sands, regular lines of surf delightful for bathing, quaint houses and harbours, and granite rocks arranged...
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Facts and Figures In 1985 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,832 times (an average of ten times each day) and saved 1,637 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).
Over 46 per cent of all services carried out...
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