JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
Carrickfergus, co. ANTRIM. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat station at Carrickfergus, on Belfast Lough, it being considered most important, in view of the great shipping...
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On the night of the 4th February the Jane Anne was again called out to the assistance of the galliot Alpha, of Riga, which also stranded to the north of the harbour. A tug-boat went to her, but after making two ineffectual attempts to get...
Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man with his five year old son had put off in a small dinghy from Shell Ness and were...
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DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid services, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115 lives,...
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ings to the RNLI, his Christmas cards proving particularly popular (350,000 mantelpieces must have been the brighter for them last Christmas); Alan Jones, Secretary and Exhibition Organiser of National Boat Shows, who has consistently given...
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DECEMBER 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
During the morning a number of fishing boats put to sea. They were overtaken by a southerly gale, with a very rough sea. Several of the boats returned, but as six were still out at one...
THE secretary of the Institution would like to repeat the appeal made in the last issue of The Life-boat for volunteers from Greater London to help to develop the Institution's work in the East End by forming an East End branch, in-...
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