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2. Dover's lifeboat Rotary Service and the Atlantic 21 on trials at Walmer found themselves busy soon after departure.
2. Dover's lifeboat Rotary Service and the Atlantic 21 on trials at Walmer found themselves busy soon after departure. The Atlantic was on service for some 15 hours and eventually spent the night in Dunkirk.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Flag days have been beating all records in this 'Year of the Lifeboat'.
Here are just a few results: On London lifeboat day, March 19, £69,355 was collected, nearly £9,000 more than in 1973. For the flag...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Launches
Lifeboat launches on service during the months September, October and November, 1973 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 20 and October 7.
Angle, Pembrokeshire September 5 and 22.
Anstruther, Fife September...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies
St Ives - Mersey class The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 41) The importance of the naming ceremony for St Ives' Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41) was recognised by the weather, which slipped in a warm,...
Category: Inaugurations
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AUG. 23RD. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
It had been reported that an over-turned boat could be seen with someone clinging to it, but it was found to be a tree trunk. - Rewards, £5 11s..
Letters
Lifeboat development • I was interested to read Captain Williamson Jones' letter in THE LIFEBOAT for July (page 8). I would like to make the following points: 1—My article was a reprint from the Yachting World where it was headed...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1917
'W" indicates War Service.) Time of 1917. Launching.
Jan. 1-2. 6.35 p.m.
„ 9. 11.44a.m.
w „ 9-10.11.30 p.m.
„ 10. 1.30a.m.
„ 10. 10.30...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers (1)
Banking on their support Among the thousands competing in the New York marathon last November was a young lady wearing a Lizard lifeboat Tshirt.
The young lady in question was Elizabeth Foster, born and bred in Mullion, but...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, THURSDAY MAY 22 'The RNLI . . . the finest club in the country . . .' MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE gathered at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames on Thursday May 22 for the...
Category: Meetings
At the Limits
Each year's Annual Presentation of Awards provides an opportunity for an informal discussion on some of the medal services, the lifeboats involved and other aspects of lifeboat work. The day after the presentation of the medals in London...
Category: Articles