JANUARY 3RD. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it had crashed near Glasgow after the pilot had baled out.- Rewards £29 19s..
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, the life- boat Tynesider was launched to take out members of the Tynemouth and South Shields ladies' life-boat guilds.
After returning from the trip she...
Relief 44ft Waveney Margaret Graham photograph by courtesy of East Anglian Daily Times. - View image in PDF
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PRACTICE LAUNCH WITH HORSES LENT BY GENERAL SIR D. A. KINLOCH, BART., C.B., M.V.C.. - View image in PDF
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1933.
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59 0 6 ••• • •• •••• ••• •• ••i B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats and Life-...
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WHEN, ON MARCH 27, HRH The Duke of Kent attended the first meeting of the Committee of Management to be held in the RNLI's new London premises, it was the first time that a President of the Institution had addressed such a...
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FIRST A CORRECTION: In part VIII of this article an error appeared in the size given for the keel bolts. The ballast keel of the Rother is in fact fixed with 12mm bolts.
The photographs on this page show work progressing on...
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DECEMBER 8TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At 5.15 in the evening the coastguard at Usan reported that four Admiralty trawlers were being bombed by enemy aeroplanes two miles to the S.E., and the motor life-boat The Good Hope put out...
When a rip current dragged a pregnant woman out to sea, Wicklow lifeboat volunteers sprang into action – and discovered she was not the only person with her life in danger
Wicklow’s inshore and...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the night of the 3rd April a doctor asked for the services of the motor life-boat William Evans to take a patient to the mainland for an immediate operation.
A moderate east breeze was blowing,...