Hoylake's Rother class lifeboat Mary Gabriel stands by the coaster Nanna as a fire-tug fights the fire which led to the evacuation of her eight-man crew. - View image in PDF
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To mark more than £10,000 raised by Devenish Brewery for the RNLI a special presentation was made by Chay Blyth, the round the world yachtsman, on behalf of the company to Rear-Admiral W. J. Graham, director RNLI, at Weymouth lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Number: A tug and a Grimsby fishing vessel were in collision near Bull Light on the morning of April 1.
Being informed that there were people in the sea, Number lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson City of Bradford III,... - View image in PDF
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 1.35 p.m. on I5th December, 1965, a doctor informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the tanker Esso London and asked if the life-boat would convey a doctor to the ship, which was heading...
Launches 111. Lives Rescued 124.
Services to vessels in distress through enemy action are marked • •• Other services arising out of the zcor are marked •.
November Meeting.
Walton and...
Category: Services
Miss Jane Leresche, who died in October, 1937, had been the honorary secretary of the Seaford branch for nearly ten years, and before that the assistant honorary secretary for over four years. During her honorary sec- retaryship the branch...
Category: Obituaries
Profiles of Lifeboats in the RNLI Fleet 52ft and 54ft Arun 15ft 6in D class and 17ft 6in C class inflatable ° Atlantic 21 52ft Barnett 50ft Thames 33ft Brede 48ft 6in Solent 37ft Oakley 48ft 6in Oakley 37tt 6in Bother 47ft Tyne 44ft...
Category: Articles
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. A Small fishing boat of Porthallow with one man on board capsized and sank off Porthallow Cove when returning from fishing at about 1.30 P.M. on the 6th April. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea....
Category: Services
A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT DUNMORE EAST FEBRUARY 28TH and MARCH 1ST.- DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD.
At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th the motor life-boat C. & S., of Dunmore East, was launched to the help of the...