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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
The Joseph and Mary, 84 feet by &i feet, 10 oars.
THE port of Poole is situated on the N.E. shore of the picturesque bay of that name. When the tide is in, and the extensive mud flats covered, the scenery is striking...
Category: Articles
Life support
Their fundraising roots lie in the 19th century, but today’s branches continue to attract new members and raise millions of pounds. How do they do it?
From the first Lifeboat Saturday street...
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Lifeboat Services from Page 12
1004 the Atlantic 21 ILB Blue Peter II launched on service with David Jones as helmsman and John Askew and Simon Dubberley as crew; the honorary medical adviser, Dr Jack Dubberley, also embarked.
The sky was overcast with a...
Category: Services
The Line-Throwing Gun. By Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
THE problem of establishing communi- cation between the Life-boat and the Lifevessel in distress has for many years occupied the attention of the technical officers of the Institution. Up to the present the only device has been the Cane...
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Crew Member Recovered After Going Overboard
AT 7.8 on the evening of the 18th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Banff informed Coxswain William Pirie of Whitehills that red flares had been seen four miles off Portsoy. At 7.30 the Whitehills life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No....
Category: Services
Annual Meeting
The Prince of Wales's Presidential Address.
THE Hundred and Seventh Annual Meet- ing of the Governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, West- minster, on Wednesday, 13th May, at 2.30...
Category: Meetings
List of Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following lists show the of Life-boat Days in the various districts, and also those places where Life-boat Days have been arranged but the dates have not yet been definitely fixed owing to the uncertainty caused by the present industrial...
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Lifeboat Services
Withernsea East Division HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TEST LIFEBOAT TO LIMITS Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seas John Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...
Letters
Where is your hat?! I have been an RNLI Shoreline member for around 24 years.
I joined after chatting to a lifeboat crew member whilst on holiday in North Wales. He told me of an incident where a young boy had got into...
Category: Correspondence