76 year old Edwin E.
Distin (seated), the only survivor of the 1916 lifeboat diaster at Salcombe, with (left to right) Mr.W. P. Budgett, honorary secretary, Hubert 'Bubbles' Distin, son, who is the coxswain, and... - View image in PDF
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The RNLI Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards will take place on 17 May at the Barbican in London.
RNLI Governors will be contacted individually and invited to request tickets to both events. All other...
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Members of Carmarthen Boat Club present a £400 cheque to Mrs Gwynne Rees, vice-chairman of Carmarthen and Ferryside ladies' guild, following a sponsored parachute jump by 13 club members. George Jones, who broke a leg in the jump,... - View image in PDF
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THEBE were heavy at the end of November, and on the 26th Jes round the coast whole gale was blowing at the time, and the Motor Life-boat and two tugs put out and 27th of that month ten Life-boats to her help. Both tugs got into diffiwere...
Reciprocal visits across the Channel were renewed in May when a party of 10 committee members of the Dover station branch of the R.N.L.I, and five crew members of the Dover life-boat went by invitation of the Societe Humanite et des...
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Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a motor fishing boat was ashore off Ayr harbour. At eleven o'clock the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of...
FAILED TO START At 9.15 p.m. on the following day, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down between the North pier and Wreck buoy, and the crew were waving for help. Two minutes...
A COMPARISON BETWEEN LIFE-BOAT SERVICES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I AM publishing here a list of the ships to the assistance of which the Life-boats have...
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
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