THE fishermen round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland play, as may naturally be supposed, the most important part in manning the fleet of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and it is of course to their co-operation that the...
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Panic can paralyse. For nutritional therapist Julie Brooks (45), it struck during an activity she had completed many times before – walking from her holiday digs in Lydstep, Pembrokeshire, to Tenby. But this time, the tide came in quicker...
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WITH deep regret we announce the death on January 24 of Mrs Patricia Rickard.
Mrs Rickard (left) had worked for the RNLI since 1961, was a member of the London ladies' bridge committee and six years ago founded the...
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DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
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WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the morning of the 25th October, the coastguard watchman reported to the Coxswain that rockets were being sent up eastward of the Life-boat house, and as the Coxswain left his house he saw another rocket discharged. He...
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment at this new and rising watering-place on the coast of Essex— the local residents being very desirous to AND NEW LIFE-BOATS.
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FOR a service in which Bridlington inshore rescue boat literally had to bounce over rocks on her way in to rescue two young men who had fallen over cliffs the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum have been accorded to the IRB helms-...
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THERE are two types of fire extinguishers in use at Life-boat Stations. The one is the liquid type, charged with carbon tetrachloride, the other is the "Total" extinguisher which is a dry powder machine. This type was first adopted...
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On the night of the 31st Dec, last the brigantine tfuggtt, of Bideford, was driven from her anchors, and stranded on the " Doomed " bar, in Padstow harbour, a Heavy westerly gale blowing at the time. The crew, five in number,- took...
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