IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...
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WHEN Miss Grace Monro gave £1,000 to be divided largely between the life-boat crews and helpers at Holy Island, North Sunderland, Penlee and Sennen Cove during 1964, the Holy Island crew decided to express their gratitude by sending her...
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(Below) The race horse Shore Line; her name has no connection with the RNLI but her owners are lifeboat supporters.. - View image in PDF
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Denmark: (below, left) A 15.2m self-righting lifeboat stationed on the west coast of Jutland.
Finland: (below, right) The 20.5m steel Harmaja built to work in ice is one of the Finnish Lifeboat Society's largest rescue... - View image in PDF
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A CONTROVERSY has apparently arisen of late between the Life-boat Institution and Lloyd's on the subject of Property Salvage Services performed by Life-boat Crews, and it would seem, judging from para- graphs which have appeared in the...
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97th lottery A brand new Suzuki Ignis was the first prize in the spring Lifeboat Lottery, thanks to Britannia Rescue who kindly donated the car. The winning tickets were picked by lifeboat crew members and representatives of Suzuki and... - View image in PDF
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Cromer and Penlee.
THE new Cromer Motor Life-boat is the third of the Norfolk and Suffolk type to be constructed, the other two being the boats stationed at Walton-on-Naze and Lowestoft. The second of these two boats, the...
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WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. R. EARP, of Austin Friars, for the follow- ing very quaint and interesting descrip- tion of a method of constructing a life-belt, extracted by him from an old Black Letter book published nearly three...
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THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...