While on holiday on the Isle of Wight last summer, Albert the Irish Wolfhound collected nearly £50 for Yarmouth lifeboat.
Owner Mary Knight took him along to the station's open day and not many people were able to... - View image in PDF
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On the 22nd October, during foggy weather, the ship Miahiels Loos, of Antwerp, was stranded abreast of No. 35 Martello Tower. The Solicitors' and Proctors' life-boat Storm Sprite, stationed at Winchelsea, went off and remained by the...
On the 2nd Feb.
this Life-boat, the Covent Garden, was launched five times, with a succession of fresh crews, and ultimately succeeded in saving 13 lives from the schooners Ram- Wer, of Wexford, and Mary Ann, of Ply- mouth...
The Record Month by Month 1946 Vessels Lives Number Lives which Lives Rescued of Rescued Life-boats Rescued by Life-boat by Saved or by Auxiliary Launches Life-boats Helped Shore boats Rescue to Save Boats January . 51 103 4 15 - February . ...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the Eight Honourable The LORD MAYOR of London, on Monday, the 8th clay of April, 1872, CAPTAIN His ROYAL HIGHNESS...
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Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C., who lives in Northern Ireland, has joined the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I.
Admiral Hezlet, who retired in 1964, served in submarines during the war....
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COBLES ESCORTED AS GALE SPRINGS UP Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the 18th January, 1963, the weather deteriorated rapidly, and as several local fishing boats were at sea the honorary secretary gave permission for the life-boat to be launched....
THE hundredth anniversary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Kirkcudbright was commemorated at a ceremony at the harbour on the 19th July, when Lord Saltoun, Convener of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a member of the...
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The Margate, Kent, 1KB assisting the m.f.v. Jaroma on 24th August, 1969, when she ran aground on a sand bank. Four men were taken off her and the service in which the Margate life-boat also took part is described on this. - View image in PDF
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