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Great Rail Journeys
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Category: Advertisement
Wreck of the Hospital Ship Rohilla, at Whitby, 30th October, 1914
Eighty-five lives were saved by the Institution's Life-boats (see p. 274.) IN Rending a collection of ,67 5s.—from herself and from Surgeon-Captain Lonias, who was senior medical officer on the Roliilla, and was one of those saved, with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher With Second Coxswain Robert Jones Took the Wheel of Holyhead's New 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Hyman Winstone During a Visit on July 18 Mrs Thatcher Als
The Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, with Second Coxswain Robert Jones, took the wheel of Holyhead's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Hyman Winstone during a visit on July 18. Mrs Thatcher also met crew members and their wives and branch and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Panama
Heavy seas and poor conditions as D class saves threeA service by Port Talbot's D class inshore lifeboat in difficult conditions has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum to crew member Robert Harris. The...
Atlantic Watch: Ireland's Western Lifeboat Stations Arranmore Galway Bay and Valentia By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
'The wind was of hurricane force, with fierce squalls accompanied by snow and sleet and the seas were mountainous.
' ... 'It took two hours to board the lifeboat and three times the boarding boat was driven back...
Category: Articles
Pig Farms, Cottages and Parrots
A legacy is a simple matter to set up, but sometimes whatthe RNLI receives is far from simple.
Ray Kipling, the Institution's Deputy Director, explains 'We're very proud of our new lifeboat. We'll take good...
Category: Articles
Ronachan, of Glasgow
On the 18th Jan. intelligence was received at the Isle of Whithorn that a large threes-masted vessel was at anchor in Luce Bay, in a position of some peril. The Charlie Peek Life-boat was thereupon quickly launched through a heavy sea, and,...
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The John Gellatly Hyndman, a 52ft Burnett relief lifeboat on temporary duty at St Peter Port, under the command of Coxswain John Petit, on service to the oil rig Orion which ran aground on the north-west shore of Guernsey when she parted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sheba III
NO STEERING Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.35 a.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Sheba HI was secured to the Helwick lightvessel and was unable to steer because of rudder trouble. The tide...
August
Launches 50. Lives rescued 152.
AUGUST 1ST. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.14 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the Longstone Lighthouse had been bombed by a German aeroplane and that the...
Category: Services