The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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ALL GROWN UP
Back in 2012, photographer Nigel Millard took a picture of the children of Tobermory’s crew trying on their parents’ kit. Almost 5 years later, the station recreated the iconic shot. Alexander Anderson (second...
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Shortly after midnight on the 8-9th August, the Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that a fishing-boat was ashore on the rocks behind Keith Inch.
There was a heavy sea running with a strong N.W. breeze at the time, and...
At about 11.30 P.M. on the 9th Decem- ber distress signals were made from the Long Stone Lighthouse, and the Life- boat Forster Fawsett was speedily launched. When about two miles out the Life-boat fell in with a steam yacht belonging to the...
Walmer, Kent. At 5.8 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1960, flares and rockets were spotted over the Good- win Sands near the wreck of the N.E.
Victory by the life-boat mechanic and others on the sea front. A...
THE sky is black with the tempest wrack, And the wares roll mountains high, And the wild winds shriek o'er the head- lands bleak, And the startled sea-mews cry; For the Storm Fiend rides the boiling foam, And his deep and panting breath...
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A Bronze Medal Service by the Torbay Motor Life-boat.
ON the night of 30th December, 1935, the motor life-boat at Torbay carried out a service which showed in a striking way the value of wireless in life-boat...
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Presentation of North Sunderland station branch's 150th anniversary vellum was made last November by the Duke of Northumberland (r. of vellum) at a gathering of crew, branch and guild members at Hamburgh Castle Hotel, Seahouses. The... - View image in PDF
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Blenwatch, the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat donated to the RNLI by Fred Olsen Lines, was presented to (I.) Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution, by Peter Robinson, Fred Olsen's passenger director... - View image in PDF
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As many supporters of the life-boat service will be aware, the R.N.L.I. had a serious deficit in 1967. Expenditure amounted to over £1,921,000 and receipts to just over £1,500,000. This has left a gap of more than £410,000....
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