AUG. 31ST. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A cry for help had been heard by three boys from the Lydstep Caves. The motor life-boat was launched, and a coastguard search party went by car along the top of the cliff, and got down it...
St David's Royal visit In May, Her Majesty Queen Mamahato B Seeiso the Queen Mother and her son Prince Seeiso B Seeiso of Lesotho, South Africa, visited St David's lifeboat station. They were in St David's to sign a twinning...
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During the past year Irish lifeboatmen have served with courage and honour. Among other services the Kilmore Quay lifeboat crew experienced the first capsizes of a modern lifeboat; they and the whole station acquitted themselves with...
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GUESTS OF HONOUR at the annual presentation of awards meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15 in this the RNLI's 160th anniversary year was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the Institution....
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Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...
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Stanlow Shell Oil Refinery gives its support to Moelfre lifeboat and last autumn members of Chester branch were invited to luncheon to receive a cheque for £150 raised by apprentices with various sponsored... - View image in PDF
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A cheque for over £430, representing money raised through sponsored swimming by adults and children, being handed over to Commander F. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., the newly appointed Chairman of the Institution, by Mr. D. Saxon-Harrold... - View image in PDF
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IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...
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BIDEFORD or Barnstaple Bay lies on the north coast of Devonshire, just within Luudy Island at the entrance of the Bristol Channel.
From the high projecting cliffs of Hartland Point, which rise 330 feet above the sea, a...
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