ON 2nd January a broadcast of a launch of the motor life-boat at New Brighton, was given in the North Regional programme. The firing of the maroons, the orders of the cox- swain and the sounds of the life-boat leaving New Brighton stage were...
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IN 1947 the Institution held 817 flag days. The number of people who gave was 7,545,000, and the sum given was £93,503..
Category: Donations
Hartlepool, Yorkshire - At 7.27 p.m.
on 2nd April, 1966, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a yacht had capsized off the north pier. It was low water with a moderate easterly breeze and a corresponding sea. The...
COASTER REFLOATED Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 2.35 a.m. on nth February, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a coaster appeared to be in a dangerous position to the south of the harbour. The coxswain investigated and found...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a badly injured man on Tearsaght Rock needed a doctor, and the help of the life-boat was requested. The man had cut his...
The U.S. Coast Guard are to be hosts on the occasion of the Eleventh International Life-boat Conference in America in 1971..
Category: Meetings
The annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. will take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, at 3 p.m..
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APRIL 1991 W, Softley, the last surviving crew member of the Brancaster lifeboat, the station having closed in 1935..
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Right: the RNLI's Anthony Oliver helps Mrs Peggy Heriot of the Craft Club draw the winning tickets.. - View image in PDF
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