On the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the Margate life-boat North Foreland. Civil Service No XI was launched in a rough sea to go to the help of the French trawler Notre Dame de la Mer. off Boulogne, which was being driven inshore...
Coxswain Harold Coyde, who was awarded the Institution's silver medal for a service in 1964, is in charge of the Torbay life-boat.. - View image in PDF
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Calling all Mancunians: Manchester has a long and historic connection with the RNLI. The very first street collection was held in Manchester and Salford in October 1891, when £5,000 was collected, and over the years Manchester's... - View image in PDF
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Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 1,572 times, saving 638 lives.
In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,712 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of over...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 12th day of March, 1902, The Eight Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O., First Lord of the...
Category: Annual Reports
Martin Woodward is the former Coxswain of Bembridge Lifeboat Station. Now in his 60s, he could be forgiven for taking it easy after years of dedicated service. Not a chance!
In 2009, Martin climbed Kilimanjaro, Africa’s...
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. , . and (right) South Shields coat of arms, 1850.. - View image in PDF
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THEY CAME FROM FRANCE, the TartS of Dungeness. They were Huguenots and it was in the days before religious toleration. So when persecution became too great they took to their boats, being fishing people, and sailed across the Channel to...
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A Service by the Bomber Motor Life-boat.
"From the calamity of shipwreck, no one can say that he may at all times remain free, and whilst he is now providing only for the safety of others, a day may come which will...
Category: Services
• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...
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