Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...
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For a number of years, RNLI branches and guilds have been finding it increasingly difficult to recruit younger members or get them involved with their fundraising activities. So, two years ago, the RNLI commissioned an intensive piece of...
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THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
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THERE were 603 launches of life-boats to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the record number in 1949—and life-boats rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives were rescued by shore-boats, for which the rescuers were rewarded by the Institution,...
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has 138 active lifeboat stations in Britain. There are 67 Fordpowered lifeboats and Ford engines are being used exclusively in the re-engining programme. The basic unit in the new glass-reinforced...
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The platform party after the life-boat naming ceremony at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, Republic of Ireland, on 10th June, 1972, by Mrs, Brian Lenihan, in the presence of the Minister for Transport and Power.
A 37-foot Oakley... - View image in PDF
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ON a former occasion we brought to the notice of our readers Mr. LACON'S improved plan for lowering boats, intended to prevent the recurrence of such lamentable accidents and fearful loss of life as had then recently taken place in the...
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oar'd the rolling billows, Surging waves rose high o'erhead ; Helpless in that hour of danger, On the gallant vessel sped.
Sails were riven,—masts were broken By the tempest's fearful power; Fruitless seemed...
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Thursday, 21st August, 1930.
Paid £22,113 5s. lid. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat establish-...
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Weymouth, Dorset.—19th April. A small yacht had stranded on the breakwater, but was towed off by a motor launch.—Rewards, £8 15s..