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Mouette II
Mudeford, Hampshire. At approximately 1.50 p.m. on nth July, 1965, a boy saw a cabin cruiser capsize off Hengistbury Head. He ran to the nearest telephone at the Mudeford beach office, about half a mile away, and the IRB was launched...
The Afternoon Ended With Tea In the Foyer: the Duke of Kent President With Commander Ralph Swann Chairman Talks With Bronze Medallists Trevor Fryer and Frederick
The afternoon ended with tea in the foyer: The Duke of Kent, President, with Commander Ralph Swann, Chairman, talks with bronze medallists Trevor Fryer and Frederick Arkley ofTynemouth.
Photograph by courtesy of Peter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
July (1)
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE. About 7.30 in the morning of the 26th of April, 1943, a dinghy belonging to the R.A.F. Rescue Service (Maintenance and Repair) Unit, with seven men on board, capsized in deep water between 20 and 30 yards from the...
Category: Services
Week's Good Cause By Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
ON SUNDAY AUGUST 12 Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, made an appeal on behalf of the RNLI on BBC Radio 4. The text of the appeal, in response to which more than £11,200 has already been received, is given below:...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
National Lotteries YOU WILL FIND in this journal eight tickets for our fifth national lottery, also a reply paid envelope to use if you wish to take part. The tickets can be sold to any member of the public and not necessarily to members of...
Category: Donations
The Day of a DOS By Joan Davies
NOVEMBER, BY TRADITION, is the time for the annual conference of the district organising secretaries, the liaison officers between the RNLI's voluntary financial branches and guilds in the field and its headquarters at Poole. At the...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 9th Juno, 1904.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
The Platform Party After the Life-Boat Naming Ceremony at Kilmore Quay Co Wexford Republic of Ireland on 10th June 1972 By Mrs Brian Lenihan In the Presence Of
The platform party after the life-boat naming ceremony at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, Republic of Ireland, on 10th June, 1972, by Mrs, Brian Lenihan, in the presence of the Minister for Transport and Power.
A 37-foot Oakley... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Clyde
(below) Clyde, 70-001, Charles H.
Barrett (Civil Service No 35): length overall 70ft; beam 18ft; draught 8ft 4in; displacement 85 tons; maximum speed, over 11 knots; range at full speed, 600 nautical miles. Charles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor By Frank Martin
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the patenting of Lionel Lukin's 'unimmergible boat', the first craft ever to be designed specifically for saving human life at sea. Frank Martin, honorary treasurer of the Hythe branch of...
Category: Articles