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RNLI staff, crew and volunteers spent an exhausting weekend in Newcastle from 20-22 June, representing the RNLI at the 10th UK and Ireland Corporate GamesAgainst tough competition, the RNLI has been appointed the official charity of the UK...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1905
Jan. 12.—Three men saved, with moderate risk to themselves, the crew of four men from the fishing - bait Grace Veale, of St. Ives, which capsized in a moderate gale and heavy sea off St. Ives on the 5th December, 1904.— Reward, II....
Category: Articles
Feature Old Friends...
The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...
Category: Articles
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MARCH 11TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An upturned boat had been reported, but was found to be a large log of timber. - Rewards, £7 5s.
Bryan Gerrard,
Bryan Gerrard, who served the RNLI first as a boat mechanic then as fleet staff coxswain/mechanic. Mr Gerrard worked for the Institution for 27 years..
Category: Obituaries
Letters
Letters...
tion by the Institution, i.e. medals, vellums and letters of thanks, but when there is extra space we will always try to include additional stories.
Unsung praises I refer to the News Point on...
Category: Correspondence
Garden Bird Supplies,
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Category: Advertisement
Record of Rescues In 1967
1967 month January February March April May June July August September October November December Number of times life-boats called out on service 65 49 85 66 69 117 144 154 122 113 60 59 1,103 Lives saved by life-boats 25 25 67 23 67 98 67...
Category: Services
. . . .Received By Way of Exchange, a Box of Chocolates
.... received by way of exchange, a box of chocolates. Alison, whose obvious surprise and delight caught the photographer's attention, is the daughter of a member of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund's executive committee.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (25)
JULY 30TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found except a patch of oil. - Rewards, £17 14s..