Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the experimental intermediate lifeboat RNLI Medina 35, on early trials. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Ambrose Greenway. - View image in PDF
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THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
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A Fine Service by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat.
A VEKY fine service was performed by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat on the llth April, 1919, when she rescued six pilots from the pilot cutter Day Dream, of Dundee....
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWBIGGIN FEBRUARY 4TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of the 3rd of February, 1940, the Belgian motor vessel Eminent, of Antwerp, with a crew of nine men, was on her way to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Fos the third year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to children living in the neigh- bourhood of the Storeyard. The party was given...
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Hurricane launch NEWS THAT MV Merc Texco had a badly injured man to be landed led to the launching of the Dungeness lifeboat, Mabel E. Holland, a 42' Watson beach class, at 1658 on February 11.
The wind was south south...
Sue Punch at work. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of London Express.. - View image in PDF
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The Newhaven lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott after being rammed amidships by HM trawler Avanturine in a gale on the night of November 23, 1940.. - View image in PDF
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During the Show, John Meakes, Managing Director of J. G. Meakes Ltd, presented a cheque for £105 to Captain Nigel Dixon, KN, Director of the RNLI. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily Express'. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 28TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. At 9.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a fishing vessel, about six miles south-east-by-east of St. Martin’s Head, not under control. A fresh westerly gale was blowing and the sea was very...