Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the motor life-boat, as reported on page 551 of The Life-boat for October, rescued seven people from a yacht and two barges, and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum was awarded to...
The Life-boat was called out on the 19th December to the assistance of the trawler Ladas, of Grimsby, which had stranded at Marske.
When the Life-boat first reached the vessel the master declined any assist- ance and the...
MATERNITY CALL Galway Bay. At 11.30 a.m. on 8th April, 1964, the nurse on Middle Island told the honorary secretary that a maternity patient needed hospital treatment on the mainland. As no other boat was available the honorary secretary...
Dover, Kent. At 10.55 on the morning of the 27th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea near the Varne lightvessel and that the pilot had been picked up by the lightvessel's...
(above) Coxswain Bruce Brown aims the bows of his lifeboat between the outstretched arms of the head launcher.. - View image in PDF
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RNLI area organiser Pauline Speed took the plunge to put the Humber lifeboat appeal in the spotlight.. - View image in PDF
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David Mcallister, the first station honorary secretary in 50 years to be awarded the thaanks of the Institution on vellum. - View image in PDF
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A legacy is a simple matter to set up, but sometimes whatthe RNLI receives is far from simple.
Ray Kipling, the Institution's Deputy Director, explains 'We're very proud of our new lifeboat. We'll take good...
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CAISTER.—On the evening of the 23rd December flares were seen from a vessel ashore on the Barber Sand. The Godsend Life-boat was immediately launched, and on arriving at the sand the barque Ingleborough, of Hull, was found to have gone...
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAT.—Guns were fired at Llanstephan during a gale from the S.W. and a heavy surf with thick rain on the 7tb. July, and a signal of distress was afterwards shown by the smack W. S. Treherne. The Life-boat City of...