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Anniversaries are big news this year! It's the Diamond Jubilee of our Patron, a century since the Titanic sank (page 48) and the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, a passionate supporter of the RNLI.
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Category: Articles
Torpedoed In a Heavy Gale
THE following letter speaks for itself:— Birmingham, December 31st, 1919.
DEAR SIRS, I have great pleasure in enclosing here- with £3 13$. for the funds of the Life-boat Institution, as a token of gratitude for the...
Category: Correspondence
Dashing Wave
Information reached Harwich about 4.20 P.M. on the 21st January that a vessel was on the Cork Sands, amd the steam Life-boat City of Glasgow proceeded to her.
They found she was the schooner Dashing Wave, of Fowey, bound...
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Mr. H. SUTCLIITE-SMITH,* in recognition of his valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary of the Bradford and District Branch, the Gold Pendant and the Record of Thanks.
To Mrs. RICHARD DAVIES, in recognition of her...
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As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.
D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...
Teens adrift
12 July: Four teenagers and an adult found themselves powerless when their angling boat's engine failed. They were drifting towards rocks near Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly part of the British...
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Elizabeth, of Teignmouth
On the evening of the 5th March, the sloop Elizabeth, of Teign- mouth, was observed outside the bar of the river in an unmanageable state, having lost her rudder. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.S.W.; there was a heavy sea on the bar,...
Wave
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 4thJuly the Life-boat Caroline proceeded to the assistance of the yawl Wave, of Goole, which was showing a signal of distress.
On arriving alongside it was found that her foretopmast and...
A Village Bazaar
£83 from a Population of 558.A LIFE-BOAT worker who lives in the village of Shuttleworth, near Ramsbottom, in Lancashire, held a Life-boat Bazaar on 8th May. Her party consisted of herself, her two daughters and five working girls. The...
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