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Category: Articles
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 35 vessels saved by them . . . . . . . .
Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c. . . . .
Amount of Pecuniary Rewards for saving Life during the...
Category: Annual Reports
Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S., late Governor of the Bank of England, and seconded by Rear-Admiral C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B.
1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
Moved by...
Category: Meetings
Figures already available show that 1965 was a year of outstanding achievement for the life-boat service. In 1964 an all-time record for launches by rescue craft of the RNLI was established. In that year life-boats were launched 929 times...
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" A dirty night, lads, bear a hand, It's blowing dead upon the land.
A ship 's ashore—just off the bar; She's all but gone—lost every spar.
Be lively, lads, and launch the craft; Stand by,...
Category: Poetry
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—While the threemasted schooner Miss Beck, of and from Carnarvon for London with slate, was taking the bar on the 5th February in tow of a steam-tug, the tow-rope parted and the vessel was driven ashore on the beach at the...
The scene at Calshot Spit on 28th July, 1972, when the Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde was named by Lady Woods, wife of the former Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. The life-boat, which has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air...
Category: Articles
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.45 in the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1949, information was telephoned from the East Pier that a yacht had grounded on the Middle Brake Sands, and the life-boat Prudential was launched at 1.19 in a light...
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...