Royal National Life-Boat Institution, for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED d 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS...
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THIS gentleman, who had been for nearly twenty years the much-respected Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, died at Bournemouth on the 18th Nov., after a lingering illness, extending over two years. He was in the 74th year of Ms...
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A SECOND edition has been published of The Book of Flags (Oxford Univer- sity Press, 155.), by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., and Mr. I. O. Evans, F.R.G.S., which was first published in 1950 and reviewed in The Life-boat for...
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On the following night the same life-boat again put off, in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the crew, consisting of 13 men, from the barque Caroline Eliza- beth, of London, which had stranded on the South Steel rocks...
The Royal Berkshire life-boat also succeeded in getting the smack Hope, of Aberystwith, and her crew of 3 men, off the South Bank and safely into harbour.
TUESDAY MAY 21, 1985 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: A.M.
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS: P.M.
There was much to please RNLI supporters in what the Institution's chairman, the Duke of Atholl, had to say in his two...
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Early in the morning of the 15th January, during thick weather, the barque Blanche Mar- guerite, of Dunkirk, and bound to that port, was wrecked on a reef off Brooke Chine. The Brooke Life-boat, George and Anne, was launched, and, under the...
Arbroath's 42ft Watson lifeboat, The Duke of Montrose, went on station in 1956. - View image in PDF
She was exhibited at the International Lifeboat Conference at Edinburgh in 1963.. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Ann Ritchie, in company with Major-General Ralph Farrant, comes aboard Arun class lifeboat 54-06, The Gough Ritchie, for which she is providing the funds, to be welcomed by the builder, William Osborne (r). The Gough Ritchie, which will... - View image in PDF
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On the 24th.
December, during a strong wind from S.S.W., signals of distress were observed from the brig Fuchsia, of Whitby. The.
Aldborough life-boat was quickly launched and proceeded to her assistance....