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Category: Advertisement
Vellum for Buckie Coxswain.
Coxswain Francis Mair, of Buckie, Banffshire, has been awarded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for rescuing the crew of an R.A.F. launch.
He took the life-boat right over the rocks on which the launch lay,...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Blackpool, Lancashire.—During the afternoon of the 25th July two men were out in a small boat attending on people...
Category: Services
The Naming of the 37Ft 6In Rother Lifeboat Rnlb Princess of Wales By Hrh the Princess of Wales
THE FRESHLY PAINTED and polished 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat to be named Princess of Wales sparkled against a backdrop of gentle mountains, their tops dusted with a light covering of snow.
The low winter sun's reflection...
Category: Inaugurations
Run for His Money
Run for his money Clive Morris, Port Talbot crew member pictured wearing an RNLI tee-shirt, ran from the RNLI regional office in Cardiff to the lifeboat station at Port Talbot raising £1,250. He was waved off by office staff Vicky,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New handbook for enthusiasts
The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook 2016 is now out. This complete guide to RNLI lifeboats past and present details every lifeboat in our fleet, plus the post-service names and locations of retired vessels. To order your copy, send a...
Category: Articles
Vital Volunteers
It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1870, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
D.S.M. for Two Coxswains.
The King has awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to Coxswain Howard Primrose Cooper Knight, of the Ramsgat* life-boat, and Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of the Margate life-boat "for gallantry and determination when ferrying troops...
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APRIL 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. Two airmen had been reported to have baled out over the sea, but later the report was found to be untrue. - Rewards, £4 18s. 9d..