During a visit to the shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh inspected two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-foot steel life-boats which were then Hearing completion. Pictured with the Duke is Mr. Harry L. Dowsett (right),... - View image in PDF
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CORK. At 8.45 P.M. a message was received that a flare had been seen a mile S.W. of Ballycotton Light. A moderate N. wind was blowing with a slight sea. At 9 P.M. the motor life-boat Mary...
IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...
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In May, 1972, Princess Anne visited the St. Ives, Cornwall, life-boat station where she met Coxswain Thomas Cocking who two months later dived for the boy described in the report on this page.
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A VALUABLE addition has recently been made to MANBY'S Mortar Life-Apparatus, by the ingenuity of Captain K. B. MARTIN, the well-known Harbour-Master of Rams- gate. That apparatus having been supplied by the Commissioners of Ramsgate...
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Jan. 1,1861.—The brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham, was wrecked on the "Whitley Sands, Northumberland, during a strong gale, with a heavy sea and showers of snow and sleet. .The Cullercoats life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was...
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Ox the evening of the 9th of August, 1957, two boys and a girl were bathing off the beach at Walberswick, some two hundred yards south of the south pier of the harbour at Southwold, Suffolk. A strong south-by-east breeze was blowing and...
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A close-knit Orkney island remembers the courage and sacrifice of its lifeboat crew who lost their lives 50 years ago
A south-easterly gale had been pounding Scotland’s coast for days, heavy seas forcing the closure of...
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