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His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent Accompanied By the Institution's Director, Brian Miles (Right) Talks to RNLI Chief Technical Officer David Hudson
His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent accompanied by the Institution's Director, Brian Miles (right) talks to RNLI Chief Technical Officer David Hudson (left) before going afloat in the prototype Trent and Severn class lifeboats during his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
THE 25th Anniversary Meeting of this Institution wag held at the United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Friday, 3rd June, His Grace the DUKE OF M...
Category: Meetings
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ILL MAN At 12.40 p.m. on 27th January, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had received a message from the wife of the doctor on the Island of Colonsay stating that her husband was very ill, and when told of the...
Lymington
LOWESTOFT.—At 6.20 A.M. on the 7th October the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a ship was ashore on the middle part.of the Holm Sand. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, were at once called together,...
A Royal Air Force Flying Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the afternoon of the 6th September the coast watcher at St. Ann's Head telephoned that a Royal Air Force flying-boat was making SOS signals. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, and the weather was thick. The sea...
Fishing Boats
The No. 2 Life-boat was also launched, at about 11.30 A.M. on the 8th August, to the assistance of several fishing boats which had been caught in a gale from the S., and were in great danger while making for Montrose. The Life-boat remained...
Saint
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 6.21 p.m.
on 23rd June, 1966, it was reported that a small sailing boat with two men on board had capsized about four miles south east of Portscartho. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott on...
Hester
On. the 1st January the Life-boat Sisters' Memorial succeeded in saving the crew of the flat Hester, of Conway, bound from that place to Bun- corn. The Life-boat was afloat on this service from half-past two in the afternoon to nine...
The Safety Fishing-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.
In figs. 1 and 2, the...
Category: Articles
Cruiser and Crete Avon
Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...