Where river meets sea, standing waves are an ominous threat to anyone in a small boat. With a 2m swell and spring
tide, conditions on 21 August at the mouth of the country’s second-fastest river overwhelmed an underpowered and...
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THE LIFE-BOAT STATION.
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, mil serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 304 Life-boat Stations of...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 233 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 290 Life-boat Stations...
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A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message in a Bottle.
THREE more have to be added to the many and varied false alarms which have called out Life-boats.* On 25th August last, the Motor Life-boat at...
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D class in search for cliff fall Victim Borth-West Division Borth 's Dclass inflatable is pictured under the cliffs about half a mile from the station on 10 June 1989, co-ordinating the helicopter evacuation of a young girl who had...
It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.
Cdr Swann first joined the Institution's...
Category: Obituaries
MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...
Category: Correspondence
Fleetwood, Lancashire. —During the afternoon of Whit Sunday, the 16th of May, 1948, a yacht could he seen on Black Scar Bank apparently in diffi- culties. She made no distress signals, but at 5.15 in the evening, the coast- guard reported...