THURSDAY, 17th June, 1909.
Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Reported that the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Institution, with the Secre- tary and the Chief Inspector, had visited...
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Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.
Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...
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IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...
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Aberdovcy, Gwynedd September 12, 27 and November 11.
Abersoch, Gwynedd September 15 and November 14.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 5 and October 27.
Arbroath, Tayside October 26.Atlantic...
Category: Services
ILB launches on service during the months September, October and November, 1973 Aberdovey, Merionethshire September 2, 29 (twice) and November 23.
Abersoch, Caernarvonshire September 14 and 29...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 23rd day of March, 1895, THE EIGHT EON.
LORD TWEEDMOUTH, Lord Privy Seal...
Category: Annual Reports
Station volunteers foresaw disaster when seven adventurous children met the elements
Midday on 26 May was cold and blustery and Clogher Head Lifeboat Operations Manager Declan Levins was at the...
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Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
An icy plunge When Portsmouth's volunteers heard that a man was trapped in icy waters below a pier, they knew they were in a race against timePolice officers had been called to Portsmouth's South Marine Parade Pier on the evening of...
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
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