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 228 Life-boat Stations...
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On the 31st of August, 1863, a large ship without masts, which afterwards proved to be the Conflict, an old sloop of war, of 2,000 tons, bound from Plymouth to Bristol, in ballast, to be broken up, was observed in tow of a steam-tug off...
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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THE Institution has received the follow- ing gifts from its Crews.
On 29th July, 1925, the Clacton-on- Sea Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Walkyrie, of Lannion, which had stranded on the N.E. Long Sands when bound from...
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SEVENTEEN crew members of life-boat and inshore rescue craft at stations around Britain are to receive awards from the Royal National Life-boat Institution for their recent actions in saving lives.
The men, operating from...
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LIFE-BOAT HOLED BY CASUALTY A SMALL BOAT in a dangerous position off the West Hoyle Bank on 27th August, 1971, led to the Hoylake, Cheshire, life-boat Thomas Corbett being launched at 10.27 a.m.
The wind was west north west...
IRB LIFTED CLEAN FROM WATER Two members of the Southend-on-Sea IRB crew, Mr. Colin Sedgwick and Mr.
Robert Chalk, have both received letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: March 22, April 4 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: May 7 (twice) and 15 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 1, May 6 and 19 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: May 28 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft 6in...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.6 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that No. 18 Group, Royal Air Force, at Inver- keithing had reported that an air search was being made off Whitby for a missing Meteor aircraft. At...