As described in the article in the last issue of The Life-boat on the 35 feet 6' inches self-righting type of motor life-boat, the Institution was engaged from 1921 to 1929 in experiments on a motor life-boat which should be suffi-...
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COXSWAIN John King of Bridlington has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry for a service described in the official report as 'long, frustrat- ing and hazardous'. At the end of it the life-boat saved the life...
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Mrs A Hamerton, Attleborough. - View image in PDF
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APRIL 3RD. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. A collier was reported to have been machine-gunned by German aeroplanes, but could not be found. News was received later that a collier had passed, going west, without lights, and the life-boat was...
Guess how much is in the bottle! For weeks customers at the Queen Adelaide puh. Putney Bridge Road, London, put their spare cash a large whisky bottle. On the evening of the 'smash' they were asked to hazard a guess as to how much it... - View image in PDF
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SOLDIERS RESCUED Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.23 a.m.
on i9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two soldiers were missing from a canoe east of St. Govans Head and at 2.38 the Tenby life-boat...
An ElectroMotion mobility vehicle " i s proven to make life better k That's the conclusive result of our recent survey of 1,000 users, who were asked for their views on how their vehicles had affected and changed their...
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Divers found AT 2018 on July 25, 1987 Falmouth Coastguard MRCC received a report of an overdue dinghy with four people on board - two men, a woman and child - and alerted Falmouth's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Sole Bay, which...
Leslie French, seen here (/.) with Mrs Charles Hunting Simpson, chairman of Fulmer and Iver branch, gave a presentation of excerpts from Shakespeare at Eton College on Sunday, January 18. £.400 was raised for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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HELICOPTER CAME At 2.12 p.m. on the following day the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy which had capsized in Whitecliff Bay had been righted but appeared to be in difficulties. There was a light westerly breeze with...