Sarah Todd and David Collins, surrounded by other children from Fairfield Primary School, Penarth, present a cheque for £90 to Captain W. G.
Sommerfield, honorary secretary of Penarth station branch, and to Mrs... - View image in PDF
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WE would remind readers of The Life- boat that, as announced in the September journal, the Institution is issuing a Calendar for 1930. This calendar re- produces in colours a picture, " All Saved," which was specially painted for...
Category: Advertisement
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED 1824 SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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On the 13th October, during a strong N.E.
gale with a rough sea, signals of distress were seen at 6.30 A.M. from the smack Vivid of Wexford, which had stranded the previous day about three-quarters of a mile W.N.W. of...
Understatement of great magnitude We are grateful to L. J. Robertson who, in his letter in the autumn journal, puts so succinctly our own feelings towards the manner of the rescue reports: '. . . understatement of great magnitude . . ....
Category: Correspondence
On the 13th March, during a strong S.W. wind, the ship Nictaux, of St. John's, N.B., struck on James's Bank, about four miles from South- port. The Jessie. Knowles life-boat quickly went off, and, with the assistance of two...
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 22 AN OUTSTANDING DAY: THE CROWN OF A MEMORABLE YEAR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE from all parts of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and, indeed, from many other parts of the world, came to the Royal Festival...
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Bull Point Lighthouse, Bristol Channel, was opened by Captain David Tibbitts, ssc RN, Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and an ex-officio member of our Committee of Management.
Designed by a Trinity House team... - View image in PDF
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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 Tuesday the 11th day of May, 1875, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE...
Category: Annual Reports
Friday 27 October 1916 started with a rescue and ended in tragedy – one of the worst in RNLI history. It is a story of courage,
sacrifice and loss. 100 years on, a lifeboat town remembers the crew who never came home
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