THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited Ramsgate and Broadstairs .on the 19th of May. At Ramsgate she opened and named the new landing stage and laid the foundation stone of the extension of the out patient department of...
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The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifE belt are Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person...
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Dear Editor
Thought you would like a copy of this photo [main picture], shot from the lifeboat during the tow-in of the Norwegian boat Keltic in poor weather.
Would you have any footage of a Severn...
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THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno which has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat, was formally inaugurated on 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, having been built out of legacies received from the late Dr. Thomas Richards, of...
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Small Paddington Bear soft toys will be on sale in branches of Barclays and Woolwich throughout the UK from 4 July-7 August 2006. They cost just £2 each and all proceeds will go to the RNLI'sTrain one, save many. - View image in PDF
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RAMSGATE.—On the 26th March, 1860, a schooner was reported to be on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The Harbour Commissioners' life-boat Northumberland was quickly towed out to her assistance by the Harbourtug Aid, there being a fresh wind...
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'Year of the Lifeboat' I pint Queens Ware mug by Wedgwood is illustrated (black on cream) with portrait of Sir William Hillary, founder of RNLI, and reproduction of painting of a lifeboat attending a wreck at the mouth of the Tyne,... - View image in PDF
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Plymouth, Devon. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th September, 1961, the coastguard told the cox- swain's wife that a small dinghy had capsized about a hundred yards off Gara Point and that a man was in the water. The...
DEC. 3RD. - MONTROSE, ANGUS. A steamer had been reported sunk by enemy action twenty miles E.S.E. of Scurdyness, but no trace of her could be found - Rewards, £31 11s. 6d..
JUNE 12TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An unknown vessel, eleven miles away, had been reported in need of help, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £12 3s..