At 9.53 a.m. on 4th September, 1966, a yacht was reported in distress about six miles south of Hastings. At 10.7 the rifeboat Fairlight was launched in a southwesterly gale and a rough sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat...
At 11.40 a.m. on iyth March, 1967, the the local nurse told the honorary secretary that a man who was seriously ill needed to be taken to hospital on the mainland.
The man was embarked and the life-boat Mabel Marion...
Mr. Frank Lemass, whose home is in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, has joined the Committee of management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Mr. Lemass, who is aged 56, is General Manager of the great Irish transport...
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Galway Bay - At 9.30 p.m. on ist June, 1967, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a 12 year old boy, who had been seriously injured in a fall from his bicycle to hospital on the mainland. The life-boat...
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 9.42 p.m. on 3 ist July, 1967 it was learnt that the Beachy Head lighthouse keeper had reported flares half a mile south east of the station. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 10 o'clock in a smooth...
Injured Yachtsman SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1973, was overcast with rain squalls when, at 5.35 p.m., the deputy launching authority of Eastney station, Hampshire, was informed by Hayling Island Coastguard that a helicopter from the SAR flight, HMS...
IT is THE GLORY of St Paul's that it can embrace all the grandeur of national occasion and all the simplicity and friendliness of a parish service. The RNLI could have had no happier setting for its 150th anniversary service of...
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The first of the RNLI's new 25-knot Severn class lifeboats has entered service at Harwich in Essex.. - View image in PDF
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Back in 1902 - Brighton's lifeboat Sunlight No.2 Heft) getting ready to launch with the Grand Hotel in the background. - View image in PDF
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The Royal Ulster Constabulary choir recently held a number of concerts in the Ulster Hall raising £4,329 for Portrush lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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