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Flying colours: the annual service for seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral in October was attended by the RNLI's President, The Duke of Kent. To represent the Institution's lifeboat crews, seven men from Kent and Essex stations were... - View image in PDF

Two stations celebrated their centen- aries in 1951: Lytham and New- biggin; and three in 1952: Cullercoats, Rhyl and Tenby.

A vellum was presented to each station by the Institution, signed by the Duchess of Kent as its...

The Winter 1989/90 Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 510 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution...

During the local regatta which was held on the the 29th July, the S.W. wind freshened to a moderate gale and the sea became rough and heavy. Several of the com- peting boats found the seas too much and had to retire. The yacht Savourna, when...

SOUTHWOLD.—On the morning of the 13th January information was received that a vessel was on the outer shoal about a mile N.E. of the town. The No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Oorry put off at 7.30 and found that the vessel was the brig James and...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1960, a message was re- ceived that the Fleetwood trawler Jacinta was ashore at the entrance to Castlebay harbour and needed help. A moderate...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 6.5 on the morning of the 24th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fish- ing vessel Colinne of Ullapool had a badly injured man on board who needed medical aid. A...

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