THE Danish Life-boat Service com- pleted its first hundred years on March 26th, 1952. In these hundred years it has rescued 12,414 lives at the cost of 59 lives of its life-boatmen.
The Institution sent it the following...
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AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
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THE history of the Institution during its first century of work has now been completed, and will be published in the early autumn of this year by Messrs.
Hodder & Stoughton, with the title " Britain's Life...
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At 11.25 A.M.
on the 26th November, during a whole S.S.W. gale, a message was received reporting that the fishing-coble Isabel and Rita, of Filey, was in distress about two miles from Filey Brigg. The Life* boat Holton...
On 14th January a man from Dinmor Quarry saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive either on to Puffin Island or into the sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, who notified the Life-boat Station.
This was at 3.30 P.M. The...
LAST Christmas eleven Branches ar- ranged carol-singing parties, several new Branches trying this form of appeal.
Sussex was again the most successful county, with carol-singers at East Grinstead, Bognor Regis and Cuck-...
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Quite a Show The Isle of Man Lions Club recently presented Peel Lifeboat station with a showcase for use outside the boathouse.
For operational reasons the RNLI gift shop is situated in a difficult position at the back of... - View image in PDF
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We are now entering the third and final year of the RNLI’s partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).
SSE is committed to supporting the communities in which it operates. When work began on the Greater Gabbard...
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ON 14th June, 1933, a life-boat society was established in Roumania. The King was its founder and is its president, and the governor of the National Bank of Roumania is ex officio the vice- president. The full title of the society is...
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At 6.45 on the 4th December it was reported that a small schooner, the Sarah and Mary, had struck the Bar and gone j ashore in Seaford Bay. The Life-boat i Michael Henry was launched and pro- ceeded to the vessel. At the request of the...