THE LOSS OF SOLOMON BROWNE AND HER CREW, DECEMBER 19, 1981PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1952, the police reported that the S.S. Capitol, of London, wanted to land a sick man and would be off the harbour about four o'clock. She arrived at...
By Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N., Deputy-Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
Broadcast by Sir Gerald du Maurier and Miss Mabel Terry-Lewis.
[This duologue was broadcast by the British Broadcasting...
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LAST Christmas a choir of twelve got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, in Sussex, went carol singing for the Lifeboats.
They wore oilskins and souwesters lent them by the Institution, and...
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Harbour Account Up to 7.8% gross The Royal Bank will donate 0.25% of total balances to the RNLI at the end of each year, and If 2,000 accounts are opened over 2 years, we will donate a total of at least £50,000 towards a new...
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MAY 26TH. GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 P.M.
a message was received from the Caister alert station that two naval speed boats had gone aground on the Scroby Sand. A light S.S.E.
breeze...
Contents 0 0 254 Lifeboat Services 256 "I7r.|1irn_ A/T 7TTT Fourteenth International Lifeboat Conference, Gothenburg, by Ray Kipling, V UlUIIlC yV-L V ill Public Relations Officer, RNLI 262 Number 485 What are lifeboats made of?, by...
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Model lifeboats and their builders raise large sums of money for the RNLI each year, and to further the cause an anonymous donor has provided a perpetual trophy in the name of the RNLI which will be awarded to the best model entered for the... - View image in PDF
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Amble, and Boulmer, Northumberland.
•—About 6.30 in the morning of the 10th of February, 1950, the Amble coastguard reported to the Amble life- boat authorities that a vessel was ashore near Coquet Island; and the life-boat...
HELICOPTER LANDS BOY AFTER CLIFF FALL Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.40 on the evening of the llth May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Treaddur Bay. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service...