In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
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75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
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Bernard Byrne comes of a traditional lifeboat family and, like his uncle, Philip, in former years, is coxswain of Arranmore lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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FLUSHING, CORNWALL Comfortably furnished quayside holiday cottage, sleeping six in three bedrooms, situated in the centre of this quiet village on beautiful Falmouth harbour. Views across the water to Greenbank and the Royal Cornwall VC.<...
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THURSDAY, 18th April, 1901.
Sir EDWARD BIRKECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read letter from His Majesty's Principal...
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Storm Force Storm Force, the new RNLI membership scheme for everybody under 16, was launched at the London Boat Show on January 2 by Erkan Mustafa who plays Roland Browning and Simone Nylander who plays Janet St Clair of BBC Television's...
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From a Submarine Depot-ship.
H.M.S. Cyclops, the submarine depotship, when she was paid off at Chatham in the spring, sent a gift of £30 to the Institution from her canteen funds.
From Two...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 280 Life-boat Stations...
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LIFE-BOATMEN'S SONS DROWNED Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.20 p.m.
on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the coxswain was told thattwo boys had been reported missing in akayak. He informed the honorary secretary and it...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 2.55 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the harbour master had reported that a yacht was aground at Inscar Point and was in danger of breaking up.
The...