In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
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Belfast Lough.
i The Annual Meeting, which was | largely attended, was held on 16th January, the chair being taken by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Coates, Bt., D.L. The financial statement for the...
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THE MEDAL R0YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National...
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IN The Life-Boat for November, 1918, it was indicated that in due course an effort would be made to furnish some details regarding the war services ren- dered by members of the Institution's staff in the Great War. At that time —the...
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SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat Duncan was launched from this station at 6 A.M. on the 10th October last, and rescued 2 men from a perilous position on board the fishing smack Gleaner. A sudden storm had compelled a number of fishing...
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Jan. 4.—Five fishermen put off in a coble from Staithes, Yorkshire, and assisted other cobles which, had been overtaken by a very thick fog and a heavy sea.—Reward, 11. 5s.
Jan. 10.—Three men, while fishing off Beadnell,...
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AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He telephoned the honorary secretary immediately,...
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
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THE three life-boatmen who lost their ! lives when the crab boat Boy Jimmy sank a hundred yards off shore near Cromer were all members of the Cromer No. 2 life-boat.
One was the coxswain, James William Davies, who was...
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ONE of the most unusual reunions in the history of the Isle of Wight life-boat service took place in October when the directors of the Isle of Wight County Press entertained nineteen veterans of the old pulling and sailing life-boats to a...
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