THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the...
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THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW is now over and once again the results are very encouraging: 1,011 new members were enrolled. Such a good result could not have been achieved, however, without the help and dedication of our voluntary...
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EASTERLY GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 9.50 a.m.
on ist March, 1965, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessels Betty, Liberty and Dainty Lady were at sea and that since they had...
About a fortnight later, the same Life- boat was able to effect the rescue of another Shipwrecked crew. A strong gale from the E.N.E. was experienced there on the 10th February, and, about ten o'clock at night, a vessel was observed...
On the even- ing of the 6th May the coastguard telephoned that a schooner, about one mile N.E. of Holyhead breakwater, was dragging her anchor and flying a dis- tress signal. Some of her sails had been blown away. The motor life-boat A.E.D....
Children from the Summerswood Junior School, Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, visited the R.N.L.I. Depot at Boreham Wood late last year. The following are extracts from letters received after their visit.
'The place I liked...
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Portquin Bav, Cornwall, December 15, 1979: Padstow lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane stands by the Greek freighter Skopelos Sky in an onshore storm gusting to hurricane force. photograph by courtesy of John... - View image in PDF
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At 6.55 P.M. on the 17th April the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that a motor boat was on fire off Rosehearty, and that the crew appeared to be taking to their small boat. The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 7 P.M., in...
Mr P. Denham Christie, chairman of the Boat Committee, on behalf of the Institution receives from HRH The Duke of Edinburgh a Design Council Award certificate for the Arun class lifeboat. Facsimiles of the certificate have been sent to each... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 28TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. A very strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy and rough sea, and as six local fishing cobles were out, the life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched at 10.40 A.M. She met five of the...