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The Appledore Station. Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt
Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt.Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt.
IN the last number of The Lifeboat a history was published of the Appledore Station, which was established in 1825, of its...
Category: Articles
Friends of the RNLI
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Coastal Spring
Look out for the Coastal Spring range of Cornish bottled water in your local shops, bars and restaurants....
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After Cracking Their Way Through L'/2 Inches of Ice Members of the Dolphin Sub Aqua Club In Cirencester
After cracking their way through l'/2 inches of ice, members of the Dolphin Sub Aqua Club in Cirencester took part in a sponsored dive at South Cerney Lakes on Boxing Day in 1981. Eight divers took part and as a result £202.50 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore (1)
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Painting the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN order to insure regularity in painting the life-boats of the Institution, and the use of the best description of paint, its Committee have decided on forwarding the requisite supply of paint, each year, direct from the...
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The Loss of H.M.S. 'Captain'
AMIDST the fearful events of the war, which at this moment are rending the heart of Europe and holding captive the sympathies of us all, there are few public events of a sufficiently stirring nature to claim from any of us more than a...
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Collisions at Sea. The Loss of the Princess Alice
THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...
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The Cross Channel Ferry Purbeck
Sick man aboard ferry AT 1300 on the afternoon of Thursday October 4, 1984, Poole's 33ft Brede class lifeboat. Inner Wheel, launched on service after the cross channel ferry, Purbeck, reported she had a man aboard with severe abdominal...
The Bravest Deeds of 1952
THE Maud Smith reward in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Coxswain Douglas Kirk- aldie, of Ramsgate, for his courage on the 20th of August, 1952, in...
Category: Awards
at the end of the day
It was 5.20pm and an hour from high tide so the beach was almost covered and waves were breaking into the coves beneath the cliffs. For some time now, the lifeguards had been keeping an eye on a large group of surfers. When Ollie’s attuned...
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