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Ceremonies
Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.
Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...
Category: Inaugurations
Classifieds
GIFTS RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £6.00' The story of the RNU with rescue reconstructions Launch £6.00* For older children and adults Lifeboats £6.00" For younger children Building support for lifeboats £8.00*...
Category: Advertisement
A new life with the RNLI
Whether they’re facing the toughest conditions at sea or giving tireless hours to fundraise, RNLI volunteers show enormous dedication to saving lives at sea. We meet five people who left home in search of a new life – and found the...
Category: Articles
Just the Ticket!
Just the ticket! Upon retirement from 23 years RNLI service, Assistant Manager of Depot General, Angela Miller (right), drew the winners of the 88th Lifeboat Lottery.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Centenary: In North Wales
ANGLESEY AND CARNARVON- SHIRE.
Colwyn Bay.
Colwyn Bay had a Life-boat Proces- sion and Carnival on 24th August, when the town was full of visitors. The Life- boat from Llanddulas, drawn by a tractor,...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
Category: Articles
"Man the Life-Boat."
THE following lines, which graphically describe the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by one of the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, were written by WILLIAM POTTER, a coast- guardman and coxswain of the Cahore Life-boat, on the...
Category: Poetry
A Subscriber for 53 Years
IN 1892 a man in Chatham began to subscribe to the Institution. He con- tinued to subscribe until his death fifty- three years later, in 1945. Since then his widow has continued the subscrip- tion in his name..
Category: Donations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The crew of this Life-boat haying expressed a desire to be provided •with a larger boat, a new one has accordingly been furnished to them, of the following dimensions: length, 32 feet; breadth, 7£ feet; number of...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (1)
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing cobles were out on the 8th February, a strong breeze from the E.N.E. sprung up, the sea became very rough and the weather being thick it was feared that some casualty might happen. The Life-boat...