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Conwy Operates a D Class Lifeboat
Conwy Operates A D Class Lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Winter Sponsored Raft Race on the River Dee Organised By the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club Raised £380 for Aberdeen's New Arun Lifeboat Bp Fortie
A winter sponsored raft race on the River Dee organised by the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club raised £380 for Aberdeen's new Arun lifeboat BP Forties. The 27 starters were sent on their way by Coxswain Albert Bird, who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service. Its Payments at a Glance, Its Receipts at a Glance
ITS PAYMENTS AT A GLANCE How each £100 of the Institution's payments was made in 1958 £ s. d.
27 2 4 — — — New construction 36 16 1 — - —- —•- ———- Maintenance of life-boats and stations (including depot)...
Category: Accounts
The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1955. 63 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURIXG January life-boats were launched 41 times and rescued 37 lives.
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FISHING FLEET Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th May, 1887.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Ben Tart of Dungeness
Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.
Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...
Category: Obituaries
John Petit Joined St.Peter Port Lifeboat Crew In 1952 and Was Appointed Coxswain In 1964; He Was Awarded the Bronze Medal In 1963 the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum In 1972 Bar
John Petit joined St Peter Port lifeboat crew in 1952 and was appointed coxswain in 1964; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1963, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1972, bars to his bronze medal in 1975, 1977 and 1979 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
William Harvey
Tractor service THE HONORARY SECRETARY of St Ives lifeboat station was informed at 1025 on Monday November 19, 1979, that the fishing boat William Harvey had a man on board with a badly injured finger. At first it was thought that the...
The Important Question of Electrical Communication on the Coast. (From "The Times," January 12, 1892.)
WHEN the Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION brings the present lamentable state of our coast communications under the notice of Parliament next Session, it is to be hoped that the Government will either accept Ms proposals...
Category: Articles