The Royal National Life-Boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Con- ference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all life-boat societies. The...
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Torbay, Devon. At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report from the police that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Levermead beach and that a man could be seen in the...
Mr. F. G. Reed, honorary secretary at Itfracotnbe, believes that a life-boat picture gallery is a major attraction at any holiday resort with a life-boat. Elsewhere the same view is held. Here Mr. D. Harvey, of Cromer, is pictured with his... - View image in PDF
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The 200th anniversary of Henry Greathead's Original, THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1990, aroused considerable interest, and we continue the story of early lifeboats with a brief history of Greathead's only survivor... Zetland Henry...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the Liberian tanker Cnosa about twenty miles south-east of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse. At three o'clock...
The Life-boat, John Burch, had just returned from exercise and been replaced in her house on the 25th August, when a vessel was observed near the Scroby Sands with her sails blown away. The vessel brought up but commenced to drive on to the...
Today, RNLI lifeboats are designed and built in-house. Soon, we will be fitting them out and doing their maintenance too, as project leader David Price explains ...
The pace of change in our...
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FILEY.—Signals of distress having been shown by the brig Lancet, of Whitby, the Life-boat placed here during the temporary absence of the station's boat, which was undergoing alteration, was launchedat 6.45 A.M. on the llth January, in a...
Appledore, Devon.—During the afternoon of the 29th March the motor barge Invincible, of Appledore, was swamped when between Middle Ridge and Bar Buoy in the Torridge estuary. She carried a crew of three, and was bound for Appledore, laden...
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...
Category: Annual Reports