WEXFORD.—While the fishing fleet were returning, on the 2nd March, a strong gale having suddenly sprung up from S.S.W. with a rough sea, one of the boats was observed to fly signals of distress, and another, with her sails blown away,...
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
This present number of The Life-Boat, the 280th, is the last but one which will be published in the first century of the Institution's history. When the text...
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Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1955 ... - 79,131 Notes of the Quarter EXCEPTIONAL weather conditions...
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Maritime exhibition: the loan exhibition, Rule Britannia, at Sotheby's ran for the whole of January, was visited by thousands of people and raised over £10,000 for the RNLI.
It included items from over 150... - View image in PDF
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FAREWELL TO FRANK
This issue we are saying goodbye to some well-loved and dedicated RNLI people – including a man who helped us to understand the effects of cold water...
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. . . and a lifeboat princess: seven-year-old Alison West sold 38,500 penny tickets to win the title in a competition organised by Seaton and Beer branch. Eight girls took part and achieved an amazing £568. The honorary secretary's... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 9TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 6.50 P.M. the assistant mechanic reported a small boat in difficulties. A strong N.N.W.
wind was blowing, and the sea was rough.
The motor life-boat...
Whitby, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th of April, 1959, an ex-coxswain of the life-boat, who is today a boathouse attendant, told the honorary secretary that while attending his boats in the upper harbour he had...
Three stages in the launching of the St. David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat Joseph Soar. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of P. D. Lathan. - View image in PDF
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