Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual Service by A VERY unusual Life-boat Service was carried out on 4th September last, when the No. 2 Life-boat at Whitby, a 34-feet Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, was called out to...
NEW life-boats in Scotland, Ireland and England—at Longhope in the Orkneys, at Howth in the Irish Republic, and at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset—were named during the last quarter.
The money to build the Longhope life-boat...
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THIS is the story of the Blackpool Life- boat Band, which is very proud of being the only Life-boat Band in the world.
Blackpool was a very different place forty-two years ago from the popular seaside resort of to-day, and...
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In the month of March the following excellent services were also rendered by the Caister small Life-boat, the Boys:— "While on a voyage from Newcastle to Dublin, the schooner Punch, of Carnarvon, was wrecked on the Barber Sands, off...
The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The boats of the ROTAL NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT IHSTITUTIOH and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
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THE gales of the, past winter brought to London the largest number of life- boatmen who have attended the Annual Meeting to receive their medals since this custom was started in 1913.
Fifteen were invited : Coxswain Patrick...
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AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
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