RNLI chief of operations, Michael Vlasto, starts the first engine in the new training facility at Poole.. - View image in PDF
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— The Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched shortly before 4 A.M. on the 24th December to the assistance of the steamer Envermeu, of London, which stranded on the Goodwin Sands whilst bound to the Tyne in ballast. When the Life...
Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...
Category: Services
LIFeBoAt LotteRY Lifeboat Lottery Take your chance First prize in the winter 007 Lifeboat Lottery is a Kia Picanto. Second prize is a 10-day Alpine train holiday very kindly provided at short notice by Great Rail Journeys (see their advert...
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THE Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of this excellent Institution, established for the purpose of relieving, by food, clothes, and money, shipwrecked sailors of all nations cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held last summer at the...
Category: Meetings
BUDDON NESS, N.B.—At about 11 A.M.
on the 22nd February signal guns were fired from the Lightship, indicating that a vessel was ashore on the South Bank, or in imminent danger. The May Lifeboat proceeded to the spot as soon...
The Eight Hon. C. 1. Ritchie, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, said in the House of Commons on the 14th February, 1896 :— " It is not the intention of the Board of Trade to interfere with the excellent work of the Royal National...
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The pulling and sailing life-boat Mary Thereasa Boileau (Dungeness, 1912-39) (See page 411). - View image in PDF
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BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th April a vessel was observed stranded on Burnham Flats, but she suddenly disappeared. At 7 o'clock the Life-boat Lily Bird was launched in a heavy sea and a strong N.
wind,...
RNLI London Events Office held a James Bond fundraising party on the River Thames aboard HMS Belfast on 25 September.. - View image in PDF
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